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Jacky and Dora King have done a lot to nourish the minds and ambitions of young people in the Flint area. Now they are nourishing young bodies as well.
To say that the Kings are business people in the Beecher area is a vast understatement of what they contribute to the community.
Yes, they operate King Karate, a martial arts school on North Saginaw Street, and have earned a good reputation for doing so.
But those who know the Kings understand that their karate school is but a piece of what they contribute their energies to.
They have been tireless workers on behalf of the Beecher business corridor, helping revive and beautify that stretch of Saginaw Street and make it something the community can be proud of. They've also been quite involved in other community activities, including the CANUSA games.
If that was all they were known for, that would be more than enough.
But the Kings are advocates for children as well. They instill in their students not just the skills of martial arts, but discipline, focus and the power of a positive attitude. By doing so, they have made a difference in many young lives.
Their latest venture is yet another example of how they are concerned about the whole child. Last week, The Journal featured the Harvesting Earth Educational Farm program that the Kings have been promoting.
They started their farming program in 2006, when they began securing vacant lots, and they've constructed a greenhouse across from their school, where they grow fresh vegetables. Their efforts not only provide good, nutritional food, but also employment for young people.
Times are tough in the Flint area, but Jacky and Dora King are proof that if you are willing to apply passion and energy to the problems around you, you can make your community a better place. We applaud them for the difference that they continue to make. | <urn:uuid:8a7c1508-92a2-4a36-8aa0-d15a39b6883f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mlive.com/opinion/flint/index.ssf/2008/12/mt_morris_township_farm_of_jac.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979139 | 385 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Who Are The Elks?
The Elks Lodge was started in 1867 by a group of 15 actors and musicians as a Fraternal & Charitable Order and is now more than 140 years old. The Elks believe in acting towards their fellowman with charity, justice, brotherly love & fidelity. What a recipe for life!
The Elks are fiercely patriotic. They built the first Veteran’s Hospital in 1918 and donated it to the Government in 1923. They support the nation’s veterans and they have pledged that “so long as there are veterans, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks will never forget them”. Our Veterans are why we are here and free today.
The Elks adopted June 14th as Flag Day in 1907 – more than 100 years ago! Flag Day was signed into law as a national holiday in 1949 by a member of the Elks, President Harry S. Truman.
The Elks believe strongly in the youth of America – our most treasured resource. Elks provide over $200 million of benevolence annually, primarily to children of America. Elks are the largest provider of scholarships in the United States. The Elks most valuable student scholarships began in 1934 and now provide more than $3 million annually in scholarships to American children.
The Texas Elks own and operate a Children’s Facility at Ottine, Texas. There a summer camp is held for a week at a time and only children with a disability are admitted at no charge. The children can go horseback riding, swimming, bowling and interact with other children with “abilities” much like their own. Counselors are on site at all times. The motto of this facility is: “Having a difference doesn’t have to make a difference”.
In addition, the Texas Elks provide funds for prostheses for children in need. These prostheses can be anything that makes a handicapped child’s life a bit better. The grants have been used for things ranging from specially equipped bikes, wheel chairs, an audio vox, a Braille reader, glasses, hearing aids and equipping a van for wheelchair accessibility.
The Beaumont Elks Lodge is dedicated to serving our community through charity and patriotism ..Become a member of the Beaumont Elks in Southeast Texas. Banquet hall rental available for weddings, receptions, corporate events, family reunions, class reunions or any other special event. | <urn:uuid:9abe5f67-d0e2-4c0b-8c11-460d585c15e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beaumontelks.org/about-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96648 | 507 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The Luxury of Reflection: A Personal Journey of Learning and Transformation.
For a wide variety of reasons, it’s very difficult to fully realize the ideas and visions you develop for projects that come your way. Success and “failure” (read “experience”) go hand-in-hand when in comes to entrepreneurial initiatives. But that’s the reward, having the opportunity to break new ground, make a difference and push things forward. I always try to take on new ventures that are a conceptual and experiential stretch (never do tomorrow what you did yesterday!) and where there’s an opportunity to create and implement emerging ideas and novel solutions.
True, some folks appear to have much higher levels of creative output than the rest of us, but creativity is something you can learn and develop though practice. Like any skill, once you understand the personal dynamics of the way you best organize your thought processes and understand the principles of creative problem solving, you can apply these practices in every phase of your personal and professional development.
Like physical exercise or musical talent it takes time to develop the ability and skills to perform at a high level, but willingness to take risks and to overcome the blocks that you experience (or others may cause) are all that stand in the way to increasing your creative ability.
With the vast resources of the Internet, the high bandwidth of connectivity through smart phones, tablets and other personal communications technologies plus access to an incredibly diverse range of knowledge, there has never been a more important time to develop creative skills that result in ideas and products that are both original and valuable (the two essential conditions for creative productivity).
Future Learning Environments
Nobody can accurately predict the future. What skills each of us will need and in what particular combination will depend on factors both within our control and outside of it. Technology and production methods will continue to evolve quickly. Global competition will bring major, innovative challenges and push conceptual boundaries. Building individualized capabilities that are creative, flexible and transformative combined with in-depth abilities in specific areas may be the best preparation. To make this happen in institutions, a revolution in formal training methods is long overdue.
Creative transformation is a result of the dynamic interplay between intense preparation, sustained commitment and hard work, environmental support (and sometimes pressure), a passion to succeed, a positive response to opportunity, openness to new ideas and an overriding desire to evolve and to grow.
Let me know if you find these comments useful.......... | <urn:uuid:1f64bfce-2ec2-4664-95a3-0536e4fdeb93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.awn.com/blogs/creative-transformation/luxury-reflection-personal-journey-learning-and-transformation/page/5,1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936042 | 510 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Judy Consumer, in this case, a mom who does freelance sports photography, asked me the other day, "I wonder what all this talk about computing in the clouds is about? I have so much footage that I need to access and I do it today with external drives. Managing these external drives is driving me nuts."
So when this Judy "Photographer" Consumer asked me the question, I was thoroughly curious as to what she understood about cloud computing. So, I started to answer her question with another question. "Well, what do you know about it?" I asked. "Not much," she said, "but a friend of mine suggested it when he saw how I fussed with my storage drives. So what do you think?" At this point in the conversation, she wanted an expert technology opinion -- a role I am wholly unsuited for. But she insisted. "I bet you know a lot. What do you think?"
I searched for a way to be let the question go unanswered, feeling so unqualified to give her good advice, but finding no excuse that would not appear rude, I hesitantly answered, "Well, the basic idea is that your data is stored on someone else's server. This lets you access your information from anywhere and the information can often be better secured than may be possible on your home computer. Finally, in some cases, you may even be able to access more applications than you'd really want to store on your PC. All in all, cloud computing can give you more computing flexibility." Then I hastened to add, "But I have only begun to explore this stuff, so I really do not know much."
My answer, I had hoped, had given her enough information to be satisfied but would also clearly communicate that I could counsel her no further. But she persisted, wanting to know more. At this point, I realized she needed to come to her own conclusion and I asked her another question. "What's the biggest problem with your current arrangement?" And with that opening, a flood of issues came gushing forth that spanned the gambit from small irritants to large catastrophic data losses. She was thoroughly unhappy with how she managed her data and she really did seem to be a good candidate for cloud computing. So I then said to her: "Well, with cloud computing you could very easily store and organize your data. What do you think?"
"This sounds too good to be true", she eagerly said. "But I have one big concern. How do I trust that someone can't hack into their servers? How do I know my information is safe?"
She was right. These are critical issues to be concerned with. But buried within her question I could sense that she was already thinking about the "how" of cloud computing not the "if" of it. I suspect that over the next few months as her frustration with her current set-up grows, her willingness to trust a service with her data will increase commensurately.
What I find so fascinating about Judy Photographer's interest in cloud computing (beyond the technology, of course) is that consumers are actively willing to consider a technology platform that, heretofore, was solely a B2B play. In my mind, the increased consumer interest in cloud computing is yet another example of the new "pull" digital ecosystem that consumers are creating for themselves. Simply, the trend I see accelerating over the next few years is that more and more Judy Consumer will be relying less and less on big companies to create the architecture for her online world. Rather, she is quickly becoming confident enough to start building (a.k.a. "pulling") the online world she wants as she wants it -- from a customized iPhone experience using apps developed by "small guys" to all the different "micro" communities and news channels she can access for information.
In this new process, Judy Consumer will be creating a new digital world for herself that merges connectivity, community, computing and collaboration. One could even say her head is in the clouds about the possibilities. I know mine is.
|ABOUT THE AUTHOR|
Judy Shapiro is senior VP at Paltalk and has held senior marketing positions at Comodo, Computer Associates, Lucent Technologies, AT&T and Bell Labs. Her blog, Trench Wars, provides insights on how to create business value on the internet. | <urn:uuid:3b273c2c-f253-459f-a0a4-ff2dcfb7f4fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976549 | 897 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The rich world of human behavior is fascinating to observe, yet difficult to interpret. People’s goals and motivations lay hidden beneath behaviors, masked from sight until user research and analysis exposes them. But is the purpose of these insights really just a report to hand off to a design or engineering team? Kate Rutter says, "No!"
Increasingly, research and design teams are including other stakeholders in the analysis process and using hands-on, visual tools to bring clarity and insight. How is this done? By using the analog favorites of pen and paper.
In this talk, you’ll get a taste-test of methods and activities that leverage the power of pen and paper as open, participatory tools in the research analysis process. | <urn:uuid:4037bd2d-f3a5-4c2f-b503-60378d383baa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://huffduffer.com/boxman/7462 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939797 | 152 | 1.765625 | 2 |
A Quote by John Neville Figgis on character, christ, contempt, conventionality, faith, fatherhood, happiness, hatred, losing, love, men, past, religion, sentimentality, simplicity, and tears
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.
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Minors In Labs
Environmental Health and Safety is committed to helping young researchers understand the risks involved with working in research laboratories and how those risks can be minimized. The Minors in lab Policy was developed to document the risk assessment decision logic for each proposed project. The risk assessment also provides researchers information on controls and training that are required when certain hazards are present.
- Please read the instructions document
- And complete the Project Registration form
- Fill out the Project Risk Assessment
The risk assessment and the project form will be reviewed by EHS and an approval letter will be sent to the Principal investigator once the review is complete. If you have any questions about this process of laboratory safety at UK, please contact Jan Eggum, Lab safety specialist, or Lee Poore. | <urn:uuid:99c4e316-306c-4c8a-a5d6-90f49dccd293> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ehs.uky.edu/ohs/minors_0001.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933365 | 155 | 1.570313 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican primaries are effectively over, and gone with them is the sharp-edged rhetoric and departures from past US policy on the Middle East.
Gone is Rick Santorum’s pledge to strike Iran and his suggestion that West Bank Palestinians should be referred to as Israelis. Gone is Newt Gingrich’s suggestion that the United States is engaged in a “long struggle with radical Islamists” and reference to the Palestinians as an “invented” people.
Instead we are left with Mitt Romney, the candidate who has tended to be relatively cautious in his foreign policy pronouncements, has emphasized the importance of America’s international alliances and drawn his foreign policy advisers from past Republican administrations.
Dan Senor, a Romney foreign policy adviser who was an adviser to the George W. Bush administration during the Iraq War, said Romney stood by principles that dated back to the Truman presidency.
“America will stand by its allies, it will help dissidents fighting for freedom around the world, it will maintain a large enough defense budget to help the US defend its own national security interests, defend its homeland, and advance these principles shared by America and its allies around the world,” he said, describing Romney’s foreign policy.
Senor said that Obama has embraced these principles to any degree — particularly when it comes to standing by allies — only after failing in his efforts to appease adversaries. As an example, he cited the administration’s emphasis in the first years of Obama’s term on Israel freezing settlements, as well as the president’s outreach to Iran in that period, and his refusal to back pro-democracy activists in that country.
“It was this effort to stand equidistant between traditional American allies and American adversaries,” he said.
Romney, he said, would have made clear to the Palestinians that preconditions were off the table and acted sooner to isolate Iran through sanctions and other measures, including seeking incitement to genocide charges against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“These are clear paths where the administration has chosen to go, and where Governor Romney would have gone another way,” he said.
Romney supporters say his hands-on, problem-solving approach would clear away the hesitancy and lack of resolve that they say has marked the Obama presidency.
Noam Neusner, a George W. Bush administration policy adviser who helped shape Romney’s foreign policy during his 2007-08 run for the GOP nomination, said Romney was more assertive than Obama and less inclined to rely on rhetoric as a diplomatic tool.
‘When everyone was talking about sanctions, he was looking at what kind of sanctions would work… He comes to the table thinking about practical matters to have the impact we want to have’
“When everyone was talking about sanctions” five years ago, Neusner said, “he was looking at what kind of sanctions would work. He was looking beyond the rhetoric and seeing what specific ideas would work. In my view he comes to the table thinking about practical matters to have the impact we want to have. He won’t rely on speech and rhetoric as his primary or only weapon.”
The candidates have had their policy differences. Romney had called for comprehensive sanctions targeting Iran’s economy months before Obama said he was ready to embrace them late last year. And Romney blasted Obama’s call a year ago for Israel and the Palestinians to use the 1967 lines as the basis for their negotiations, saying that the president had “thrown Israel under the bus.”
But on their overall goals there is common ground. Both Romney and Obama are publicly committed to preventing Iran from going nuclear, using pressure and diplomacy while emphasizing that a military strike as a last resort is definitely an option. Both favor a return to Israeli-Palestinian talks without preconditions, and adamantly oppose Palestinian efforts to obtain statehood recognition without the talks.
That has left the opposing sides to define their foreign policy differences along lines of personality and governing style. Romney’s backers describe a can-do, successful businessman who revels in solving problems. Obama’s team depicts a leader who has restored the American credibility they say was eroded by George W. Bush’s adventurism.
Romney has portrayed Obama as a sellout and as weakly deferring to lesser powers. Most recently, referring to a failed North Korean rocket launch, Romney’s campaign accused Obama of trying to “appease” that country through food aid and of “undermining” US security.
Some, however, think that Romney’s criticism is more about campaign rhetoric than genuine differences in policy approaches.
‘What drives Romney’s rhetoric right now is the basic reality that the president is not vulnerable on foreign policy, the American public is not interested, so he has not found a sure footing’
“What drives Romney’s rhetoric right now is the basic reality that the president is not vulnerable on foreign policy, the American public is not interested, so he has not found a sure footing, so he tries to draw contrived or hyperbolic differences,” said Aaron David Miller, a negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations who also has been critical of President Obama’s approach to the Middle East.
Miller, now a scholar with the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, said he didn’t expect to see much of a lurch in policy from Romney.
“He’s articulating policies he wouldn’t follow,” Miller said, noting the preponderance of centrist Republicans among Romney’s foreign policy advisers. “He inherits the same options and limited American choices” that every president does.
Romney, while hitting hard at Obama throughout the primaries, also sought to distinguish himself from the more aggressive rhetoric of his Republican rivals. He would not be drawn into mimicking a pledge by Santorum to strike Iran, and chided Gingrich for saying that the Palestinians were an invented people. He also has told Jewish leaders that he would not pledge to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
Instead, at least when it comes to the Middle East, the Romney team has mounted a campaign that implicitly acknowledges that he and Obama share similar policies — but that Romney came about them honestly, while Obama did so reluctantly.
A Romney campaign sheet distributed last month after Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee set up a narrative in which Obama instituted hard-hitting sanctions, but only after being led to this approach by Congress and by Europe.
“The Obama Administration Lagged Behind The United Kingdom, Canada, And France, In Calling For And Imposing Sanctions On Iran’s Central Bank,” it said. “The United Kingdom and Canada imposed sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank and other financial institutions in late November 2011, and France also urged such sanctions. On the same day, the United States declined to impose such sanctions.”
Obama’s supporters have touted his work in pressing the UN Security Council to pass the resolution in 2010 that created the framework for such sanctions. The administration worked with Congress to time the sanctions so they would not harm world oil markets. It instituted the bank sanctions last month.
Romney’s critics say that Obama’s deliberate approach has paid off and that the Republican nominee-apparent had yet to articulate clear alternatives.
“Romney’s whole appeal is this kind of ‘I’m a good manager’ thing, which would lead you to expect a pretty high level of confidence and fluency, yet he seemed in the debates kind of uncomfortable on national security issues,” said Heather Hurlburt, the executive director of the National Security Network.
On Iran, Romney would not be as patient with Tehran as Obama, Neusner said.
“There is a significant difference, especially in terms of the follow-through,” Neusner said. “Mitt Romney would be less likely to take the time Obama has.”
Neusner said that in 2007, when Romney was studying up on the Iran issue, the former Massachusetts governor identified Iran’s likeliest vulnerability as its import of refined petroleum. He noted that sanctions targeting that sector did not kick in until 2010, and that the ability to see ahead was a measure of Romney’s analytical acumen.
“His approach to Iran was very pragmatic in the sense that he wanted to understand what actually would work with respect to stopping the Iranians from having nuclear weapon capabilities,” Neusner recalled. “He and his advisers looked squarely at what were the pressure points. One of the things he seized upon was refined gasoline. Now we’re getting around to that as a matter of American policy. He was ahead of the curve.”
Romney’s campaign has made much of the president’s tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A recent front-page story in The New York Times outlined the decades-long friendship between Romney and the Israeli leader, dating back to their days in the 1970s as investment analysts at the same Massachusetts firm.
Miller of the Wilson Center said such relationships ultimately can have an impact on policy, particularly when it comes to an Israel decision on when and if to strike Iran.
‘Romney will give the Israelis the benefit of the doubt because that’s the way he feels’
“Barack Obama does not come from that place” of an emotional connection with an Israeli leader, as does Romney with Netanyahu, or Bill Clinton with Yitzhak Rabin and George W. Bush with Ariel Sharon, Miller said.
“He’s not an anti-Semite or an Israel hater, but he does not have the automatic response,” Miller said of Obama. “Romney will give the Israelis the benefit of the doubt because that’s the way he feels.”
Romney also might oppose an Israeli strike on Iran — but he would be likelier to elicit trust from the Israeli leadership, Miller said.
“You will have a different emotional response from a Romney presidency,” he said.
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Posted on August 6, 2010 by randychapman
The Department of Justice recently posted on its website a customer friendly guide called Frequently Asked Questions about Filing an ADA Complaint. This guide, provided in a question and answer format, leads the reader through the complaint process. It explains, among other things, how to file a complaint, what information to include in a complaint, how to file a compliant by e mail or regular mail, how to track the status of a complaint,and what happens if the complaint is referred for mediation or is opened for investigation. Since letters and packages are screened for security, e mail complaints are received quicker than complaints by regular mail. E mail complaints also receive an immediate reply that they have been received.
The website also explains how a complaint may be filed if an individual can’t prepare their own ADA complaint because of their disability. In that case, individuals may file a complaint orally over the phone. Individuals who communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) may schedule an appointment to make a complaint using a direct video connection to a DOJ staff person.
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Boonsri DickinsonAssociate Editor of BYTE
Beyond The iPhone, Why Apple Sues Samsung
Experts predict that Apple's iPhone 5 will be the best selling smart phone of all time, and could even boost our GDP by 0.5 percent. But Apple might be intending to take an even bigger bite out of the market, by going after every device maker in the smart phone market.
At the end of the day, not everyone will buy an iPhone, but most people are expected to buy a smart phone. Although the Samsung and Apple trial dominated the news as of late, the real reason why Apple might be going after Samsung is to indirectly cash in on the success of Android and its open ecosystem.
At first glance, it might appear that Apple won against Samsung in court, but with more than 14,000 press articles covering all angles of the case it's hard to make sense of the outcome based on casual analysis.
A more complex Apple battle plan than meets the eye is unfolding, Sumon Sadhu, the director of intelligence at text analytics startup Quid, told BYTE. "Apple's battle against Samsung was intended to be the spark to set a precedent of obtaining royalties from every Android device maker," said Sadhu, who used Quid software to break down all of the lawsuit-related articles into consumable categories and generate insight.
"If [Apple] was able to obtain this judgment as opposed to a settlement, we could anticipate a situation where every mobile device on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone would directly contribute to Apple's profit streams," said Sadhu. "That has bigger implications than launching a new iPhone."
Apple might be a dominant company in Cupertino with plans for a spaceship-like campus, but Samsung headquarters in South Korea is practically its own village, and its dominance in its local economy is massive. Apple might appear to be the winner in the patent case, but it didn't exactly get what it wanted. First, Apple didn't get the $2.5 billion it sought.
Beyond all the glitz and glamor of new products, licensing deals emerge as Apple's other market share. By nature, Apple's OS is a closed system for innovation. Android is an open system. Instead of ignoring it, Apple wants to capitalize on it. However, because Google is not a hardware company, Apple can't directly sue Google.
Thus Apple's decision to go after Samsung. The South Korean electronics company is, after all, the world's largest marker of phones, who also happens to be the largest distributor of the Android operating system.
The U.S. case of Apple versus Samsung began in April 2011 after Apple claimed that Samsung was copying the iPad and iPhone look and feel with its Nexus Z, Epic 4G, Galaxy S 4G, and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The judge ordered that Samsung pay $1 billion to Apple.
The result of that trial won't influence the sales of Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note smartphones--Samsung's latest devices--or devices sold outside the US.
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Lisa Brennan said she’s counting down the days to Aug. 20. That’s the day she is scheduled to have one of her kidneys removed and given to her best friend, Kenmore resident Ryan Miller.
“It’s kind of like Christmas,” she said, acknowledging that most people don’t expect her to be quite as enthusiastic as she is about her pending surgery. “I’m giving somebody a really, really cool gift.”
Ryan discovered he was in desperate need of a healthy kidney in December, a scant few months after getting married to his wife, Nicole. He was born with renal tubular acidosis, a medical condition that causes an accumulation of acid because it’s not filtered properly through the kidneys.
The 30-year-old said he has always had scar tissue and about a 30 percent kidney function, but prior to December he never had any major complications.
“Doctors said that one day down the road I might need a kidney transplant but it was never anything I really gave a thought to,” Ryan said.
That was until a couple years ago when doctors diagnosed him with hypertension.
“It’s a vicious cycle where having high blood pressure makes the kidneys work harder,” Ryan said. “They were basically on overdrive.”
In December he learned the high blood pressure had taken its toll, resulting in chronic kidney disease. He would need a new kidney, and fast.
“At that point my kidney function had dropped to about 15 percent,” Ryan said. “I’m actually doing better than the doctors expected. I should be on dialysis right now ... I should be on death’s door.”
Ryan’s doctors told him he wouldn’t last the new year without a kidney transplant, but because he has type O blood — the universal donor, but not receiver — he would probably have to wait seven years on the National Kidney Registry.
We were both absolutely devastated,” Nicole said. “We didn’t know what our future was going to hold.”
“I spent about a week feeling sorry for myself, but then that turned into ‘I need to do something about it,’ ” Ryan explained.
Ryan made up green wristbands with his name and number and posted flyers asking friends, family and strangers to get tested to see if they were a match. He said he never expected to actually find someone to be a living donor, but even one person getting tested was better than nothing.
His parents weren’t good matches, and while his brother proved to be close enough, there was an even better match that came in the form of a surprise.
“I had no idea that Lisa even went and got tested ... she did it unbeknownst to me,” Ryan said.
The two first met in 2002 as students at D’Youville College, where Ryan now works as an academic advisor. The two struck up a quick friendship during Lisa’s freshman orientation — where Ryan served as an orientation assistant as a sophomore — and they’ve been inseparable ever since.
The costs associated with Lisa’s side of the surgery will be covered by Ryan’s insurance, he said, but there will still be out-of-pocket costs for him, which is why a benefit is being held Friday at D’Youville College. Organizers of the event are hoping to raise about $30,000 to help Ryan, Nicole and Lisa through the process that will keep Lisa from her teaching job for a couple weeks and Ryan recovering at home for six to eight weeks.
The event will be held at the D’Youville College Center in Buffalo and will include basket and silent auctions, food, beer, wine and live bands.
Lisa said it’s not possible that the decision to give Ryan one of her kidneys could make them better friends.
“I find it hard to believe that we’d get any closer than we are,” she said. “It’s just a really cool thing that we’ve been able to go through together.”
But Nicole disagrees.
“Lisa is, absolutely from this point on, family,” she said.
A family that is soon to be expanding as Nicole is due to give birth to the couple’s first child in December.
For Ryan to be “able to watch (our) child grow up and being able to have grandchildren is so amazing,” she said.
IF YOU GO
• WHAT: Benefit for Ryan Miller
• WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. Friday
• WHERE: D’Youville College Center, 320 Porter Ave., Buffalo
• COST: $25 advance, $35 at the door
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|<< Isaiah 10 >>|
Darby Bible Translation
Woe to Tyrants
1Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,
2to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the sudden destruction which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help, and where will ye leave your glory?
4They can but crouch under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
Judgment on Assyria
5Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.
8For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?
9Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria And her idols, so do to Jerusalem And her images?
12And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit on thrones;
14and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.
15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up him who is not wood!
16Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire:
17and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day,
18and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick man fainteth.
19And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might write them.
A Remnant of Israel Shall Return
20And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again rely upon him that smote them; but they shall rely upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty �God.
22For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: the consumption determined shall overflow in righteousness.
23For a consumption, and one determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, accomplish in the midst of all the land.
24Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian; he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt:
25for yet a very little while, and the indignation shall be accomplished, and mine anger, in their destruction.
26And Jehovah of hosts will stir up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod shall be upon the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. ...
28He is come to Aiath, he hath passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage.
29They are gone through the pass; they make their lodging at Geba: Ramah trembleth, Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30Lift up thy voice, daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laish! Poor Anathoth!
31Madmenah is fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim take to flight.
32Still a day of halting at Nob; he shaketh his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ...
33Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low;
34and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. | <urn:uuid:8cb62027-e7db-4fe2-b295-4c81c0309590> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://darbybible.com/isaiah/10.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966078 | 1,233 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Dear friends,1 this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders2 to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.
I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets3 and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.43
First of all, you must understand that in the last days5 scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.64
They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised?7 Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."85
But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word9 the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.106
By these waters also the world of that time11 was deluged and destroyed.127
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,13 being kept for the day of judgment14 and destruction of ungodly men.
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.159
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise,16 as some understand slowness. He is patient17 with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.1810
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.19 The heavens will disappear with a roar;20 the elements will be destroyed by fire,21 and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.a2211
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
as you look forward23 to the day of God and speed its coming.b24 That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.2513
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth,26 the home of righteousness. | <urn:uuid:15626a0c-694f-47ee-a365-634dfad5f148> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biblestudytools.com/bible/passage.aspx?q=2%20Peter+3:1-13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966308 | 422 | 1.585938 | 2 |
We love Jeremy Rendina‘s typewriter drawings! Jeremy uses a vintage IBM Selectric to create these mesmerizing abstract patterns, which take on a physical quality similar to traditional weavings. We connected with this Los Angeles-based maker to talk about his Margins Studio Etsy shop, and his range of work…
What’s the origin story of Margins Studio?
Margins is a way to make my printmaking work more widely available. It began as Rendij Studio in 2009, the first year I printed a Moon Phase calendar.
Where do you like to turn to for inspiration?
I’ve always been fortunate to be surrounded by talented friends. It happens that many of them are collectors. I’m fascinated by the things they turn up: self-published records on LP, rare poetry, quilts based on video games, aboriginal digging sticks, etc. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not a very good collector myself — I never can seem to find the most mint copy or complete the whole run — I just want to use all these wonderful things around me as a catalyst.
As much as I like weird old books and stuff, nothing is quite like being in a forest after it rains or seeing an endless array of clouds.
What was it about typewriters that appealed to you as a medium?
There was a very old Underwood typewriter in the house growing up and I would type out little stories and make book covers for them. When I got a discarded IBM Selectric I was amazed to find out that you can adjust how hard the type hits the paper. This made it possible to create relief or letterpress-like prints. I decided to use keystroke repetition much in the same way as textile patterns are created.
How do you think your location in Los Angeles affects your art?
Well, the sun is a powerful thing.
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Black Cohosh. Streicher, who treats mostly middle-aged women, knows that menopause can cause desperation for symptom relief. That's why many women going through it turn to black cohosh, an increasingly popular herbal supplement purported to ease menopause-associated symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness. Some short-term clinical trials have concluded that it's superior to a placebo. A year-long trial, however, found the herb to be no more effective than a placebo in treating hot flashes and night sweats.
Streicher says the positive outcomes of the shorter studies are most likely coincidence. "The nature of perimenopause is that it's a roller coaster: the symptoms go up and down," she says, referring to the period of life surrounding menopause.
In 2007, the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health convened a workshop to evaluate health concerns about black cohosh's potentially detrimental effects on liver and breast tissue. While their review did not find the herb particularly harmful, it didn't find it to be helpful, either.
"What you have is greedy entrepreneurs looking for a vulnerable group—and no one is more vulnerable than women with hot flashes," says Streicher. "I just hate to see women taken advantage of when there are things that really can help them."
Ginkgo. Ginkgo, also known as ginkgo biloba, is one of the world's most popular herbal supplements. It's said to improve memory and cognitive functioning, and even stave off Alzheimer's disease. With the population aging, small wonder it's experiencing booming use. Unfortunately, there's no solid evidence that it works.
Taken from the ginkgo leaf and usually sold in pills and teas, ginkgo has been used widely and studied repeatedly. Researchers' conclusions can be summed like this: Small studies have tended to paint the herb positively, while large studies have found no benefit. The most extensive trial, the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory study, was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Published in 2009, it examined whether ginkgo could lower the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the elderly. The data was also subsequently used to see if ginkgo had slowed cognitive decline, inhibited dementia, reduced blood pressure, or prevented hypertension among the study's subjects. The herb struck out on every measure.
Like black cohosh, ginkgo is probably safe—as long as it's not consumed in seed form, which has been linked to seizures and even deaths. Nevertheless, the herb remains controversial among doctors. Those who oppose it do so mostly because it represents the success of an industry that's based on marketing and word of mouth rather than on science.
How to Approach Herbal Supplements. In general, doctors say, dietary supplements have the potential to distract patients from seeking out evidence-based treatments, while squandering their resources. If you're looking to cut back your health spending, skip the trip to the supplement aisle—not the trip to see the doctor.
If you plan on giving any herbal remedy a try, look for the USP Verified mark on its label. That mark indicates that the product's manufacturer has voluntarily had it evaluated by the independent U.S. Pharmacopeia, a standards-setting authority that makes sure the product contains the ingredients listed on the label, doesn't contain harmful levels of particular contaminants, and complies with the FDA's Good Manufacturing Practices guidelines.
Mullin adds this advice: Begin taking one supplement at a time, so you'll know which is responsible if you have any adverse reactions. And, most importantly, tell your doctor what you're taking. "These are the basics: take one thing at a time, tell your doctor, stop if you're suspicious," he says. "Always do this under some kind of guidance." | <urn:uuid:ce1ea213-3955-4820-841f-27ccbdf15e2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2012/02/22/4-herbal-supplements-your-doctor-hates?s_cid=related-links:TOP&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959299 | 804 | 1.828125 | 2 |
"My initial meeting with Rocco – It was pure and centered and seemed to have a sense of purpose, and I felt that there was something burning in his heart that I could be helpful to. It had that kind of truth in it that I decided to run with. I like the street corner aspect of working with Rocco, it woke up a certain part of my renegade ways I’m trying to keep alive these days. I fully believe in DeLuca. I think that he’s got the power to be a contemporary troubadour, as I see it, and I hope I can be his friend for a long time, whether I am operating in the same limelight, ahead of him, behind him, in his shadow, whatever it takes, I’ll be there. The one thing that I love about Rocco DeLuca is he is driven by his own heart." – Daniel Lanois
Rocco Deluca was born in the winter in Southern California. Like other Angelenos he was surrounded by local literature, latino art, motorcycles, film and music. His early years were spent studying the likes of Billy Holiday and Nina Simone as well as the darker and raw Delta Blues heroes of the 1920′s. At the age of seven, he taught himself to play listening to these records. By the time he was a teenager, Rocco had developed the skills and the confidence to start performing for others. For the first few years, he played only specific instruments. It wasn’t until later he discovered he had a voice. Street busking, clubs, theatres and and festivals, Rocco has performed around the world many times over with his 1931 National by his side.
His authentic and unusual lyric and voice has since garnered him international attention and acclaim.
Rocco has had the good fortune to cross paths with and gain inspiration from various legends. John Lee Hooker gave DeLuca the opportunity to support his live shows. And later, Johnny Cash and June Carter were kind enough to invite him into their Hendersonville home, where values and excellence were displayed. Most recently, Deluca was recorded by and toured with Daniel Lanois, where he learned great lessons in work and experimentation.
After extensive travel from Kingston to London to the deserts of Texas and California, Rocco has placed his recent stories into a collection called Drugs ‘n Hymns. Sifting through failures, cities, friendships, and geographic shapes, Rocco conjured images that were documented live in a room no bigger than a closet, with some help from the Echo Park Jubilee Tambo Flower Unsung Heroes Choir.
Drugs ‘n Hymns is the culmination of detailed moments inspired by both the illuminated and the disturbed, unfolding into a drug deal that takes place during the Sacred Service- Always in conflict with salvation and sin, the cerebral and the bestial, light and shade. Rocco’s love of contradiction is ever present.
Inspired by ‘religion’, literature and experience, DeLuca takes the listener on a pilgrimage, a forever evolving search for salvation.
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1. The most effective speakers were three people you never heard of, who attested to Romney’s unblinking compassion and support when their children were desperately ill. Retired firefighter Ted Oparowski and his wife, Pat, described how Romney made repeated visits to their dying teenage son David, brought him gifts and, at the boy’s request, gave his eulogy. The most arresting image was of Romney showing up at the hospital with yellow pad in hand, using his legal skills to help David write his will. The boy had asked for help in making sure his prized possessions – skateboard, model rockets, fishing rod, rifle – went to his friends and family. Then there was Pam Finlayson, who described how Romney, seeing beyond a “tangle of plastic and tubes,” gently stroked her tiny premature daughter and helped in concrete ways as well, with food and baby-sitting. It will be a shock – and political malpractice – if snippets of these speeches don’t show up in TV ads.
2. Romney has amnesia if he thinks Washington and the nation came together after Barack Obama was elected and wanted him to succeed. True, there was a momentary honeymoon as Americans across the board rightfully congratulated themselves for having elected a black president, whether they had voted for him or not. But Romney’s party quickly decided to block and criticize Obama at every turn. How else to explain near-unanimous, no-compromise GOP opposition to much of what the president has proposed to jolt the economy and revamp the health care system, including ideas Republicans have promoted in the past, and the party’s take-no-prisoners crusade against government spending after its own massive spending spree under President George W. Bush?
3. There’s a large details gap so far between what Romney says he wants to achieve and his means of getting there. His acceptance speech was effective from the standpoint of trying to instill trust in the electorate. But the trust-me argument will only go so far with skeptical voters trying to figure out what he would actually do in office. If his top priority is dramatically cutting back federal spending, as Paul Ryan's budget would do, what would Romney spend money on and where would he get that money? Is there any area in which he would invest more? Schools? Infrastructure? Job training? Research? If trade is a pillar of his jobs policy, how does that work if sinking economies in China and other countries mean people there aren’t buying as much? Maybe upcoming interviews and debates will shed light.
4. The same details gap exists when it comes to foreign policy. Romney devoted 193 words of a 4,087-word speech to the subject. That’s less than 5 percent. Within those few paragraphs, Romney promised more backbone in international dealings. He said he’d be nicer to Israel, meaner to Iran, more stern with China. How, whether or when he’d phase down the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, we don’t know. He didn’t mention Iraq, either, not particularly surprising since that would have drawn attention to a policy Americans favor and a promise -- to end the war -- that Obama kept. The surprise is that a Republican nominee seems to be largely ceding national security to a Democratic president.
5. Romney’s signature achievement as governor of Massachusetts, making sure nearly everyone in the state has health insurance, went unmentioned – not just by Romney but throughout the convention. Massachusetts is No. 1 in the country for insurance coverage – a bragging point that in different times, or in a different party, would have been cited every day in every speech lest anyone forget. From a political standpoint, understandably, it’s the last thing Romney or anyone else wanted to talk about, given its fame as a model for “Obamacare,” conservatives’ least favorite part of Obama’s tenure. Yet it’s still mind-boggling that this part of Romney’s record – proof positive that he can solve a problem, even a very complicated one – had to be buried. | <urn:uuid:0df5710e-ce89-41df-8a72-15e3c8996009> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/five-most-surprising-things-about-the-gop-convention-besides-clint-eastwood--20120831 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978758 | 862 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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I am inspired by different young people who are able to connect with each other despite the different culture and beliefs that they have. I am also inspired by young children who can make a difference in an adult's life!
Tell us about an issue that matters to you and how you became aware and involved.
The issue that matters to me most is teenage pregnancy. It has been a problem since and now it is growing. In my context, I can see many young people who are engaged in teenage pregnancy and I pity them because they are so young yet they are are in that situation. As of now, I don't know of an organization in my context who are dealing with the said problem. If one day, there is an organization to address such, I'll be the first one to sign up....
Share your perspectives on what makes a good leader.
A good leader is a good model ... a servant and knows how to be corrected. For me, a leader should also knows how to lead an organization and develop its members to become better persons and has determination. A good leader also practices what he preach and does not eat his words. Aside from that, what makes a good leader is his faith to God.
Do you think TakingITGlobal can help you achieve some of your goals? Have we already? Please tell us how.
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P.N. Dhar, eminent economist, passes away
New Delhi: Professor Prithvi Nath Dhar, an eminent economist who served as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, died here on Thursday.
A professor of Economics in Delhi University for many years, Dhar was one of the founders of the Delhi School of Economics.
He served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Research and Policy Analysis, in New York from 1976 to 1978.
Dhar, who was the only person in the Prime Minister’s Office those days who was not from either the IAS or the IFS, had joined the PMO in 1970.
He was with Indira Gandhi in Shimla when the famous Shimla Accord was signed with the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after 1971 war with Pakistan.
Dhar, whose wife Sheila was a well known singer writer, was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s highest civilian award in 2008.
His memoir ‘Indira Gandhi, the Emergency, and Indian Democracy’ is considered an authoritative documentation of events of the important period in modern India’s history. | <urn:uuid:83dfa65c-0daf-475e-bac7-c7f84900a3bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://liveindia.tv/india/p-n-dhar-eminent-economist-passes-away/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980973 | 242 | 1.695313 | 2 |
25 January 2013 | News story
Why would someone rush out of the city on Friday after work to drive deep into the night and get up extra early the following morning just to go for a walk? Because it’s not just any walk; it’s a CAT (Citizen Action for Tigers) walk where participants volunteer to help protect Malaysia’s wildlife. And indeed community participation – a hallmark of many SOS funded projects, is what makes the difference.
The idea behind protecting Peninsular Malaysia’s remaining tiger populations from poaching is simple: get people into the forest, to experience wild nature firsthand. As the saying goes, people only protect what they know, which is the rationale driving the success of the CAT Walks so far organised by the Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT), an SOS grantee. With the discovery of a tiger pugmark from an individual animal possibly new to the region on the first CAT Walk of 2013, it seems the future is bright for community conservation in Taman Negara according to Kae Kawanishi, General Manager of MYCAT. It is also the first time since 2010 for any CAT volunteers to encounter a tiger sign, making the sighting extra special. Being in the jungle, for many of the participants is an adventure in itself, but to make such an exciting discovery will serve as excellent motivation to other volunteers, she asserts.
Suffering from a lack of government resources to regularly patrol and manage the vast areas of jungle in its landmass against poaching, the call for community conservation has surfaced in Malaysia’s national press several times in the past six months. Already MYCAT is one step ahead on the trail, implementing the CAT programme since 2010. Initially offering walks lasting a few hours for the general public once a month, it grew to include specially organised events catering to company personnel as CSR and team building exercises and also the CAT Trailblazer – a week-long jungle trek with park rangers for the more adventurous volunteers. One of the first corporate volunteers to the CAT Walk programme, Royal Selangor signed up for repeat visits for its staff members, with company representative Tan Jooi Chong explaining:
“We jumped at the chance to conduct a CSR program with MYCAT. It was a wonderful trip of exploring and learning. When we checked the camera traps, seeing a tiger, other wild cats and elephants was so exciting. We enjoyed ourselves very much and look forward to the next three CAT walks when more staff will participate.”
Summing up the success of the project so far, Kawanishi explains: “Give people the opportunity to become part of the solution and they will embrace it. If it is a positive experience, they spread the word.” A case in point is a junglecraft enthusiast who resides in Malaysia, Paul Colclough. He participated in one of the first CAT Trailblazers, and has since created two promotional films for distribution online to help promote and explain the value of the initiative to a wider audience.
While open to all, so far CAT trips seemed to attract urban residents for whom the prospect of getting ‘away from it all’ might appeal. Word of mouth is key, and leveraging online tools like Facebook and YouTube, along with the Tiger Roadshows at local public places, such as night markets and shopping malls has helped to raise awareness on MYCAT conservation programmes among various audiences. CAT Walks used to consist of a weekend stay in the forest of Taman Negara including a hike or two, but the programme has been refined and expanded to include training up volunteer team leaders and camera trapping activities as well. It is hoped that with a team of specially trained volunteer leaders, MYCAT can operate a CAT Walk every weekend, creating a consistent presence along the trails and paths through the forest bordering the western side of Taman Negara National Park. Meanwhile all participants get to experience very real conservation work on the ground, learning how to navigate in the forest terrain using compasses and GPS units, as well as checking camera traps for evidence of wildlife passing through the area. Of course there is also the more serious work of surveillance walks, and searching for and deactivating snares which are later removed by law enforcement officers from the Wildlife Department.
While exciting and generally enjoyable, the discovery of a sun bear’s skull and bones beside an old wire snare proved a sobering encounter for one team of volunteers. The poachers had left the animal to die an agonising death, illustrated by the deep claw marks on the tree trunk to which the snare was attached. While saddening, the event underscored the need for continued and enhanced on-the-ground protection if tigers and other wildlife of Taman Negara are to survive the onslaught of poaching. | <urn:uuid:546e712b-bfa8-4423-a4fa-8849c92f4a9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://[email protected]/news_homepage/all_news_by_theme/species_news/?11799/Community-cats | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947467 | 983 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The Office of Fair Trading published the findings of its Call for Information on the road fuel market today (30th January) and says competition is working well in the UK – however there may be issues at local levels.
The call for information, which was launched in September last year, was to determine if there are competition problems within the market.
The report states that there are some areas of the UK where wholesale competition is weaker – but details: “During the Call For Information, the OFT did not received sufficient evidence of a limited choice of wholesalers for independent retailers to justify carrying out a market study, nor have we received any individual submission that would justify opening an investigation.”
However the Government watchdog announced recently that it has launched a formal investigation in GB Oils (which also operate under the name Scottish Fuels) looking into contractual arrangements for the wholesale supply of fuel in the Western Isles.
The investigation is under Chapter II of the Competition Act 1998 and relates to a suspected exclusionary abuse of a dominant position in the relevant market.
Clive Maxwell, OFT chief Executive explained: “We recognise that there has been widespread mistrust in how this market is operating.
“However, our analysis suggests that competition is working well, and rises in pump prices over the past decade or so have largely been down to increases in tax and the cost of crude oil.”
He continued: “Our call for information has not identified any evidence of anti-competitive behaviour in the fuel market at a national level, where competition appears to be strong. There may be some issues at a local level.
“Where we receive evidence of potential anti-competitive behaviour we will consider taking action. For example, we have recently opened an investigation into the supply of road fuel in the Western Isles of Scotland.”
The OFT did see differences between urban and rural areas in terms of prices but say there are a number of factors accounting for these including lower throughputs per forecourt, fewer competitors (including supermarkets) within a local area, and higher transport costs for getting fuel to rural forecourts.
It also looked at ‘Rocket and Feather’ pricing - the widely held perception that pump prices rise quickly when the wholesale price goes up but falls more slowly when it drops.
The report states: “We have not found compelling evidence of rocket and feather pricing in the UK road fuels sector in our econometric analysis of national, local and site-level data.
“This finding is consistent with evidence that we gathered from market participants about the way that retailers buy fuel and set their prices, with different types of retailers purchasing fuel on different time lags and a number of retailers aiming to be, or match, the cheapest site in their local area.
“These features suggest that rocket and feather pricing is unlikely to occur.”
It continued: “We recognise that there is a strong perception among consumers and motorists’ groups that rocket and feather pricing exists. However, the evidence we received was largely anecdotal, especially when compared to our own econometric analysis of the relevant price data.
“There is further work that we could have undertaken to develop our econometric analysis, but we did not consider that such work was warranted, given that the evidence we have gathered during the Call for Information suggests that overall competition in the UK road fuel sector appears to be working reasonably effectively.”
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Simplify budgeting with personal money
Many couples keep their finances partially (or even completely) separate. One big reason is that spending joint money on individual expenses can lead to disputes, and keeping separate accounts can reduce that. There is, however, another reason to keep some amount of personal money: Simplifying budgeting.
Lots of couples merge their finances to some extent. From completely merged to completely separate, you'll find someone at every point along the way--for example, joint accounts for handing certain joint expenses, but not others. As far as I'm concerned, anything that works for you is fine, and I don't much want to advocate that any point along that spectrum is better than any other (especially with regard to dispute avoidance).
Having said that, I think keeping a certain amount of personal money in personal accounts can simplify budgeting.
Once you get past the big budget categories (taxes, housing, groceries, medical, transportation, utilities), what's left are a bunch of smallish categories that can end up being very fiddly to deal with properly. Does going to a pottery class count as education or entertainment? Does a toothbrush count as household, grocery, or medical? What category do sheets and towels go in?
If you've got a working budget, you've probably answered all those questions already--but you probably also have stumbled over some expense, somewhere along the line, that doesn't seem to have an obvious category. Especially problematic are unusual expenses that are rare enough that they don't have their own budget line item, but large enough that you really can't just shove them in "miscellaneous" and leave it at that.
For example, I just went to an Esperanto conference. What budget category does that belong in? Education? Travel? Vacation? Entertainment?
It was within driving distance so the travel expense was modest, and the conference fee itself was quite reasonable, but the hotel costs added up (even though I shared a room with my brother). It was enough money that it couldn't just be ignored, but it wasn't obvious what category to put it in--which worked out fine, because I paid for it out of my own personal money.
By creating personal accounts and allocating a certain amount of money to them, my wife and I greatly simplified our budget. For example, we don't budget any money for books or magazines--we buy what we want with our own personal money. We don't budget for meals out, except for entertaining guests. (Meals out with just the two of us, one or the other of us pays with personal money.) Personal money also covers things like hobby tools and supplies, premium booze, and electronic gadgets.
We could budget for all those things, but it'd be complicated. Lots of those categories would be small, and they'd also be very inconsistent. (Years go by when we don't buy any electronic gadgets.) By just allocating a lump sum to "personal money" we get the important part taken care of--we know the total amount of spending--but we don't have to fiddle around with details.
Take the idea of personal money all the way, of course, and it's kind of like having no budget at all. I wouldn't recommend that. There's a lot of benefit in having a budget, as a way of keeping your spending in line with your values. But you get a lot of the benefit early--in those first seven or nine categories that eat up eighty percent of your money.
It's a personal decision, of course, but I think the simplicity of leaving a bit of money unallocated--except to be spent on one person's whim--is an overall win. | <urn:uuid:83443eb6-5250-4a67-8d31-784d0cf20da0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wisebread.com/simplify-budgeting-with-personal-money?wbref=readmore-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976209 | 761 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Part of the promise of Nunavut was that, once in control, the majority Inuit government would offer better government – that has not happened. ... The only thing Nunavut has been successful at doing is creating a space where Inuit identity can be expressed. But it is not meeting the basic needs of the population right now. | <urn:uuid:8438adaa-748d-4a91-ae1a-7921d66592d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/nunavut/part-1-nunavut/article651260/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97466 | 77 | 1.679688 | 2 |
A stay on the "Big Island" of Hawaii
gave me the chance to indulge in some easy snorkeling. Calm waters, lots of
fish, and ease of entry to the water made the following three places my favorite spots on the
Kona (west) side of the island.
City Of Refuge
Also known as Honaunau Bay, this is a favorite spot for snorkeling as well as a
good destination for exploring the island's history, as the snorkeling cove is
adjacent to Puuhonua O Honaunau National Historic
Park. The park commemorates refuge sites (Puuhonua)
where ancient Hawaiians could retreat to escape the dire penalties exacted for
breaking many of the arcane laws that kept order in society during that time.
We are not talking murder and robbery, we are talking
things like men and women being forbidden to dine together, allowing your
shadow to cross the path of a chief or nobleman, and so forth. Off with their
heads! Or go to a Place of Refuge, such as this one. The park contains
reconstructed houses, churches, and other village attributes.
The snorkeling cove, calmest during morning hours, is home to eels, turtles,
dolphin, and a host of fishes. Water entry is easy (when seas are calm) from an
array of flat black stones that are situated conveniently at water level. Note
that the black lava stones are pretty rough, however -- this is a good site to
use snorkeling booties to protect your feet. For even easier entry, use the
(coarse, black-sand) beach adjacent to the boat launch, but obviously be aware
of any boats coming and going from the launch.
Parking is limited, as are amenities. Porta-potties
are provided, and there are a few picnic tables and barbecue grills. To get
there, take Highway 11 south from Kailua-Kona about 15 miles, then turn right
on Highway 160 ("highway" being a somewhat deceptive term for these little
two-lane roads), also known as Keala O Keawe Rd., and follow the signs.
Spencer Beach Park
All sources tout Spencer Beach as a great family
destination, and I can vouch for that. In addition to ease of water access and
protected swimming (courtesy of an offshore reef), there are abundant free
facilities for family activities including picnic tables, barbecues, basketball
courts, and volleyball nets. Restrooms, showers, and a lifeguard are also
present. The combination of features offered at this beach makes it a popular
hangout for locals. I heard a lot of Hawaiian being spoken here, and many small
brown children were swarming the beach and shower areas. The smells from the
grills were sweet, exotic, and tantalizing.
The snorkeling itself is not the best here, if your goal is crystal clear
water and lots of fish. The day I visited, the surf was a bit rough -- not
enough to make you feel in danger at all, but enough to churn up a bit of the
bottom and make things a tad murky. It seems this is not unusual. That being
said, I did see a number of tang and angel fish, as well as coral and anemonae. And the access is gentle, sloping, and sandy,
albeit the pebbly kid of sand typical of many Big Island
beaches. It's not a bad place to start out, especially if you're staying in the
Waikoloa or Waimea vicinities.
Spencer Beach Park
is less than 20 miles north of the Waikoloa resort area via Highway 19. At the
Highway 270 junction, turn left onto 270; Highway 19 continues to the right
toward Waimea, just 9 miles from the junction. The
left turn to the park is well signed and not far past the junction.
Kahalu'u Beach Park
Talk about easy pickin's! This beach is right smack
in the middle of Kailua-Kona, with easy water entry, free parking, and more
fish than your average aquarium. The water is warm and clear here, especially
when you get out away from the entry point and more toward the middle of the
semi-protected bay (freshwater springs near the shore pump startlingly cold
water into the shallows). Much of the bay is sandy-bottomed, which is not
always the case on the Big
Island, and many areas
are shallow enough to stand up. Just be sure you are standing on sand or rock,
not living coral.
I understand that larger marine life is abundant just outside
the breakwater, but I can't attest to that, as I'm not a strong swimmer and I
wouldn't recommend venturing out there unless you are, and then only on a calm
day. Inside the protected area, you'll see a variety of colorful wrasses,
parrotfish, tang, needlefish, angels, and puffers.
A breakwater offshore creates protection as well as an attractive
environment for the many fish that live and feed here. Turtles abound as well,
particularly in the shallow southern end of the bay, which turns into tidepools at low tide. The area is posted "DO NOT TOUCH THE
TURTLES," and I was pleased (and frankly more than a little shocked) to find
that being respected by the families who packed the little beach and the tidepool area.
Did I say "packed"? Um, yeah. That's the downside
to Kahalu'u Beach Park. All the things that make it a
great beach for you make it great for everybody else, too. As with any good
snorkeling beach on the Kona
Coast, your best bet is
to go early. Going on a weekday also helps. Combining these two should net you
a parking spot.
The park has decent restrooms and usually has trucks providing everything
from snacks to snorkel gear to security lock boxes for your car keys, wallet,
and other small valuables. If the trucks aren't present, you are just steps
away from other vendors providing all the services you need, as this beach is
just north of the Outrigger Hotel/Resort and right on the main drag (Alii Drive) in Kailua-Kona.
Sally O'Neal shares her land and sea adventures weekly in this column. She
spent two weeks on The Big Island in March/April 2011. She thanks her dog-eared
copy of the 1973 classic "The Many-Splendored Fishes of Hawaii" -- still in
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August 3, 2011
We were treated last night to a delightful slide show at Paradise Inn by 93 year old Rainier legend and mentor, Dee Molenaar. Dee showed slides from his first climb of Mt. Rainier back in 1939 with handmade ice axes, his early years of guiding in the 1940’s under the leadership of chief guide Clark Schurman (via the Kautz route back then), his days as a Mt. Rainier NPS climbing ranger, the second ascent in 1946 of Mt. St. Elias in Alaska, the 1953 American K2 expedition where he and his companions were stopped by Pete Schoening’s all time famous anchoring (“The Belay”), and his many years as author, historian, geographer, and artist. Dee’s 40th anniversary edition of The Challenge of Rainier is due out later this year, from Mountaineers Books.
After the show Phil Ershler, George Dunn, Greg Vernovage, and I walked out into the dark Paradise parking lot and looked up to a magnificent sky full of stars, barely illuminating a towering Mt Rainier. The cloud cap that had been flying over the summit all day had disappeared and the night was calm. I thought of the poem by Clark Schurman that Dee had closed his show with:
Last campfires never die.
And you and I, on separate ways to life’s December,
Will always dream by this last campfire,
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Lulu’s Rescue Embarks on The Summer of L.O.V.E.
Summer of L.O.V.E program launches with a 3-week long children’s summer camp.
Bucks County, Pa. – June 04, 2012 – Lulu’s Rescue, an all-volunteer animal rescue organization, is launching its L.O.V.E program starting this summer, with a 3-week long Foster Camp that will run from Friday, June 29 through Saturday, July 21, 2012. The camp is for children ages 8 to 12 years old and is designed to promote volunteerism, bring families together for a common cause and save animal lives.
Lulu’s will pair each child and family with an appropriate foster dog or cat who suits their lifestyle. The camp will then combine at-home projects that each child can do with their foster pet, as well as offer trips to local sites for arts and crafts, music, humane education and more. Included in the planned activities are art classes taught by local artist Susan Roseman and music workshops conducted by the School of Rock in Doylestown.
“This camp is meant to be an enrichment experience that will teach children qualities such as compassion, empathy and responsibility that will stay with them for life,” said Lulu’s Rescue founder Michele Armstrong. “Teaching children to be faithful, kind stewards of homeless animals, as well as teaching them art, music and humane education, is a rewarding and enriching experience like no other.”
Lulu’s Rescue usually finds homes for its foster animals within about three weeks, which is the length of commitment to fostering that the program requires. The dogs and cats selected for the fostering program have been pulled from high-kill shelters where they have virtually no chance of survival. They have been temperament tested, are of all breeds and ages, and are matched with a foster home whose lifestyle seems most suitable for the animal’s personality. Puppies, kittens, adult dogs and adult cats are all in need of fostering until adopters can be found.
“We call it the summer of L.O.V.E., which stands for Lulu’s Outreach Volunteer Experiences,” Armstrong said. “While the camp is designed for children 8 to 12 years old, the program can benefit all kinds of families and we are happy to work with any family that wants to use fostering to teach the value of volunteering, positively influencing a community and helping to solve the homeless pet crisis. We can tailor our fostering experiences to any family’s needs.”
Information about Lulu’s Rescue Foster Camp:Foster Camp is limited to 20 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. The fee for the 3-week program is $150 per camper. Lulu’s Rescue will financially support all foster animal needs once an adoptable pet is placed into a foster home, so there is no additional cost to participating families.
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Almost Meatless: Recipes That Are Better for Your Health and the Planet (Paperback)
A Little Meat Can Go a Long Way
We all know that eating less meat is healthier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, but how do we cut back without sacrificing flavor or resorting to a carb-heavy diet?
For today’s health-, budget-, and eco-conscious omnivores, Almost Meatless offers ingenious ideas for creating delicious, nutritionally balanced meals in which meat is an enhancement rather than the centerpiece. From all-American comfort food to global favorites, you’ll find more than 60 satisfying, easy-to-prepare main dish recipes that go light on the meat, including:
Beefed-Up Bean Chili
Eggplant and Chicken Puttanesca Stacks
Shrimp and Slow-Roasted Tomato Risotto
Sweet Potato Chorizo Mole
Tofu-Turkey Sloppy Joes
Almost Meatless also presents guidelines for buying poultry, meat, seafood, and other animal products responsibly, to ensure the best quality, flavor, and value. No matter what your reasons are for reducing your meat consumption, you’ll discover versatile cooking solutions that maximize flavor while minimizing your grocery bill.
About the Author
Erstwhile vegetarian JOY MANNING is the restaurant critic for Philadelphia magazine, where she also writes for their Daily Taste blog. She was previously senior editor at Philadelphia Style. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
THE AUTHOR SCOOP
What was your inspiration for writing Almost Meatless?
My inspiration came from my own experiences loving to cook and making the journey from vegetarian to responsible meat eater.
Do you eat your vegetables?
Yes–I love all vegetables, even lima beans.
Name the most horrifying dish that your mother used to make.
Hotdogs wrapped in canned crescent rolls and baked served with instant potatoes au gratin from a box.
What do you like to make by hand?
Mayonnaise. It's a lost art. But it's very easy and I don't understand why everyone doesn't do it.
How did you learn to cook?
About seven years ago, my sister was dating a chef. Hanging out with them, I became interested in cooking and he taught me a lot of basic techniques. I was inspired to start experimenting on my own. I just started cooking a lot, reading a lot of cook books, and watching endless hours of food TV. When I met my husband, he had the same interest so it was something we got more and more into together. Then I started writing about restaurants for work, which keeps you out of the kitchen to some extent but really exposes you to interesting ideas about food. My most recent round of education has come from working with Tara on Almost Meatless–as a culinary school graduate, she knows everything.
TARA MATARAZA DESMOND is a food writer and recipe developer. She has contributed to television productions for the Food Network and to several cookbooks, including those for Philadelphia restaurants Fork and Vetri. Her writing and original recipes have appeared in Philadelphia Style magazine and Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE AUTHOR SCOOP
Who would you cast as yourself in a movie of your life?
Tina Fey or Gilda Radner, if we were lucky enough to still have her here making us laugh.
When did you know you were a writer?
At a Walden Books at the Poughkeepsie Galleria in 1985 where I begged my mother for my first diary: a sky blue journal with a rainbow, a poem on the front, and a lock on the side. She made me promise that if she bought it, that I'd write in it. Twenty-three years later, I have filled the pages of 13 journals.
How do you cheer yourself up when you're feeling down?
Listen to music (I listen to song lyrics the way some people read poetry), cook (and eat, of course), and run (currently training for my 2nd marathon).
Cheese, popcorn, bread, chocolate, milk, tomatoes (in no particular order)
What did you want to be when you grew up?
As a teenager, I wanted to work with girls struggling with eating disorders. After watching a close friend and her family suffer through her anorexia, the disease and its frustrating repercussions became too close for comfort, and I opted against pursuing the career. Ironically, years later, my work is focused on food and its impact on our lives.
Praise for Almost Meatless: Recipes That Are Better for Your Health and the Planet…
“Meals that are both tasty and filling without having a slab of meat as the overbearing star ingredient”
“The authors of the new book Almost Meatless make a satisfying case for eating less meat and more vegetables and grains...The resulting dishes are healthier, less expensive and beautifully balanced.”
—Chicago Sun Times
“The recipes look good enough for carnivores to enjoy as well”
“This way of eating makes sense not just for saving money, but, as the authors say in the subtitle, for the planet.”
“Show[s] that a less meatcentric diet than the typical American one can still be satisfying and delicious”
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British-Somali songwriter, feminist, and musician Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, also known by her stage name Poly Styrene, is most notably known for being the founder of punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
She was born in Bromley, London, and ran away from home at the age of 15 with just £3 in her pocket, hitchhiking from one music festival to another. This adventure ended when she stepped on a rusty nail while bathing in a stream and had to be treated for septicaemia.
After seeing the Sex Pistols performance at the Pier Pavillion Hastings on her 19th birthday she thought that anyone could do what they were doing and so decided to form her own Punk Rock band, putting an ad in the paper calling for ‘young punx who want to stick it together’, and that was the beginning of X-Ray Spex. She eventually became a passionate feminist and posted a blog dedicated to women’s rights and defense of women.
She was described by Billboard as the “archetype for the modern-day feminist punk”; because she wore dental braces, stood against the typical sex object female of 1970’s rock star, sported a gaudy Dayglo wardrobe, and was of mixed race. She was “one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history, male or female”.
Needless to say, she was a total bad ass.
idg why this post doesn’t have more notes
it’s poly fucking styrene omg
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Top Text: “YOU PUT ME IN CHARGER?”
Bottom Text: “YOU DIDN’T PUSH POWER BUTTON, SO I DIDN’T CHARGE”]
It’s awesome how the symbol guns in my store don’t actually start charging when you put them in the cradle… no they only start charging if you push power on the gun after cradling it. How non-intuitive.
this, a 1000 times this.
First submission here! I thought for a while about all the crazy and awful things that have happened to me while working retail. For instance last week someone called the 911 because I wouldn’t give her a discount…? But this blog always makes me depressed/not feel so alone so I wanted to share a story that made me really happy. I work at a self service laundromat, but people also drop off their laundry; I do it, and they pick it up later. There’s a very sweet little girl who hangs out with me when her parents are there. (she never gets in the way though) I was very busy this morning and she was asking me a lot of questions about the guy who’s clothes I was folding (who’s name was Carlos), and we were having a jolly old time making up a story about who he might be. She then looked at the tip jar and asked me what that was. I told her sometimes if people thought I did a really good job they would leave me some money to let me know they appreciated me. She thought about that for a little while, then asked if Carlos had left me a tip. I said no. She thought about that for a little while longer then said: “Don’t worry, when Carlos gets here he is going to see how nice you are and how good you folded his clothes and how hard you worked and he is going to give you a dollar and everyone will clap because they are so proud of you!”
Thinking about that has never failed to cheer me up when I have had a thankless day.
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Hanna Rosin’s new book is out today, and I suppose I should read it to fact-check it, because it seems like no one else will. In the Times today, David Brooks gives a preview of what’s to come, asking “Why Men Fail.”
You’re probably aware of the basic trends. The financial rewards to education have increased over the past few decades, but men failed to get the memo.
… Thanks to their lower skills, men are dropping out of the labor force. In 1954, 96 percent of the American men between the ages of 25 and 54 worked. Today, that number is down to 80 percent.
Actually in 1954, the 92.8 percent — not 96 percent — of men aged 25 to 54 had a job, according to BLS statistics. In August that percentage was at 82.2 percent. A lot of that has to do with, y’know, the recession. As recently as 2007, 87.5 percent of men had jobs. Others were in school, being a housedad or, yes, collecting disability. More on that in a sec.
Meanwhile, the percentage of women aged 25-54 working (outside the home) has also been dropping — from a high of 74.9 percent in fourth quarter 1999, to 69.1 percent in the first half of this year.
In Friday’s jobs report, male labor force participation reached an all-time low.
True, but as the Atlantic explained, this has more to do with an aging population than anything else.
Millions of men are collecting disability.
True, but so are millions of women — about 300,000 more women than men, in fact. According to the Social Security Administration, 3.28 million males and 3.58 million females were receiving SSI disability payments in December 2011. (pdf, page 22).
Even many of those who do have a job are doing poorly. According to Michael Greenstone of the Hamilton Project, annual earnings for median prime-age males have dropped by 28 percent over the past 40 years.
Brooks misrepresents Greenstone’s work here. Greenstone does indeed conclude that when you adjust for inflation, average earnings for median prime-age [25-64] males did drop 28 percent from 1969 to 2009 — but that’s because fewer men are working, and so aren’t earning any wage. When you look at men working full-time, the mean earnings of men aged 25-64 has risen 13 percent (but the median has dropped 1 percent, a sign of growing inequality. (pdf, page 13).
Men still dominate the tippy-top of the corporate ladder because many women take time off to raise children, but women lead or are gaining nearly everywhere else. Women in their 20s outearn men in their 20s. Twelve out of the 15 fastest-growing professions are dominated by women.
No and no. Brooks doesn’t give a source for his claim that women in their 20s outearn men in their 20s, but I’m willing to bet it came from a 2010 data analysis by Research Advisors…. but that little factoid came with a number of caveats, that Brooks doesn’t mention. It only looked at childless, never-married men and women who live in cities. Married men significantly outearn never-married men — no one really knows why, although theories abound — so by excluding them from the sample, you’re excluding some of the top earners.
I just took a look at the 2008-2010 American Community Survey. The average income for full-time male workers in their 20s was $30,849 … for women, $27,877.
Also, it’s not true that 12 of the 15 fastest-growing professions are “dominated” by women (and most of those jobs are not exactly highly desireable, like food service workers). Also, the 15 professions expected to grow the most are expected to generate just 6.3 million of the 20.5 million new jobs expected by 2020.
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Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), an anti-immigrant group, blames Mexican immigrants for increasing carbon emissions in the U.S. The group bases its startling claim on a bogus report by the nativist Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which is linked the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a hate group. But even more worrisome: the group’s hatefest is airing on popular channels such as MSNBC.
And this cheap diatribe from the group’s website:
“Because of American’s proclivity for conspicuous consumption, most environmentalists understand that population growth in the United States affects the environment here and also worldwide,” commented Missy DeYoung, Chairman of the Board of Californians for Population Stabilization. “However, many environmentalists won’t talk about the fact that immigration is the number one factor driving U.S. population growth. It’s intellectually dishonest to think we can address population growth without addressing mass immigration.”
So, I guess the solution is to deport all Mexicans because they create “more carbon emissions than in their previous countries.” Oh, wait, I meant exile Americans to some remote corner of the planet. They’re the ones with an environmentally-unfriendly “proclivity for conspicuous consumption.” | <urn:uuid:3fa7d29a-7e9f-4c44-8613-df60fb7c0c70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2012/04/18/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930324 | 274 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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700,000-Ton Cleanup Settlement Reached in Jersey City Toxic Chromium Case
NEWARK (April 6, 2011) — PPG Industries has agreed to clean-up of one of the largest remaining sites contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in New Jersey. The cleanup is estimated to cost PPG up to $600 million and remove an estimated 700,000 tons of chromium waste from a Jersey City neighborhood. The settlement stems from a 2009 citizen's lawsuit filed in federal court by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Interfaith Community Organization (ICO), and GRACO Community Organization (GRACO) on behalf of Jersey City residents who have been fighting for a comprehensive clean-up since the early 1980s.
"After decades of foot dragging, we now know this cleanup is going to happen, and it's going to happen right," said Nancy Marks, NRDC senior attorney. "What could have been a Swiss cheese approach to the cleanup is now a comprehensive removal of the contamination — no holes to be found. This Jersey City community should never have been stuck living on top of someone else's toxic waste in the first place. They're finally receiving the justice they deserve and will be soon free from this poisonous legacy."
The settlement ensures PPG will clear a nearly 17-acre, densely populated area of Jersey City of 700,000 tons of cancer-causing toxic waste that has plagued it for over 50 years. PPG has agreed to finance the cleanup of the area, which includes the company's former Garfield Avenue chromium plant, surrounding sites and contaminated groundwater. Wherever possible, the cleanup will involve the excavation and removal of chromium wastes, and disposal in offsite hazardous waste landfills. Strict dust control measures will protect residents and workers during the cleanup.
Since the lawsuit's filing in 2009, PPG twice attempted to have the citizen's suit thrown out of federal court in order to move forward with a less stringent state settlement. Both attempts were denied by two different judges. Notably, the federal court settlement agreement ensures the cleanup will reduce chromium levels to 5 parts per million (ppm), which reflects the best available science about the health effects of exposure to the chemical and is much more stringent that the state’s enforceable limit of 20 ppm. PPG will also test residential properties near the Garfield Avenue site upon request and clean up any contaminated properties to the 5ppm level. Since this agreement was reached in federal court, it also includes binding deadlines that cannot be delayed by state bureaucracy.
"This is a victory for environmental justice, for public health, and for the economic rebirth of an area that for half a century has been a toxic wasteland in the midst of a densely populated section of Jersey City," said Reverend Willard Ashley, co-chairperson of ICO and pastor of Abundant Joy Community Church in Jersey City. "It's a victory that will mean more jobs and less cancer."
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If we need to “wean ourselves off oil”, government should lead the way
Posted by evanescent on 8 March, 2011
Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary reckons: “getting off the oil hook is made all the more urgent by the crisis in the Middle East.” My response is simple: if it’s so important to stop our dependency on oil, YOU go first. Please show us how it’s done. And you can start by getting rid of the current tax on fuel.
Tax on fuel in the UK is the highest it has ever been. For every litre of petrol (unleaded average at present is 131.38p), 58.95p is tax. And 20% of the final price includes VAT (also a record high of 20%). There are those who vilify the oil companies when they see the exorbitant profits they are enjoying. Let’s think about this for a moment: the oil companies are the ones who scan the earth for oil (drilling locations are heavily restricted due to “green” regulations), construct oil platforms, drill for the oil, refine it, ship it around the world, and deliver it to your local petrol station overnight, and require all the overheads of any business, versus: a government of powerful vote-whoring politicians who are practically answerable to no-one, with a track record of breaking promises, lying to your face, taxing you at every single possible opportunity, more than doubling the price of petrol itself, and invading your privacy. If we are going to point fingers, let’s be honest over who the real villains are.
Another obvious (and pretty silly) myth being perpetuated here is that oil is an addiction we can just get over. No, we can’t. And we shouldn’t. The quality of life we enjoy in the West is dependent on our demand for power. This isn’t something to be guilty about, but proud. It’s what separates us from savages in other parts of this world. There is no viable efficient practical alternative to oil as a power source at this moment in time. If and when the circumstances necessitate a shift, you can be sure that private companies (the ones who meet our demands now) will find the answer. That is how it always works. That is the only way it can work. (Even if somehow it doesn’t work out, the government does not hold the keys to a golden room where all our necessities are stored for emergencies. The power to tax is not the power to create.)
Incidentally, having a job title with the words “energy and climate change” seems like a contradiction to me. It’s like being a pro-Semitic Nazi or an anti-abortion individualist. The cult of climate change is fundamentally opposed to human well-being and industry. All this meddling in the economy simply wastes taxpayers’ money by pushing impractical “green” alternatives that can’t meet our demands. Why don’t these politicians realise that you can’t force a shift in the market, and if you do, the laws of economics will only come back to bite you? You can say we need to get away from oil all you want. For that matter, you can say we need to get away from our reliance on oxygen – but wishes aren’t horses. (Interestingly, other governments in the past like Soviet Russia and North Korean have had a desire to “wean” their citizens off another commodity they were heavily reliant on: food. It sort of worked; they ended up running out of food anyway, but had several million less mouths to feed.)
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Olympic gold. It’s the most sought after prize in the vast majority of sports.
Being faster, higher, stronger is the ultimate goal for millions of sportsmen and women around the globe.
Standing on top of the podium as your country’s national anthem is played and its flag raised means you’ve hit the top — unless you’re a footballer that is.
When the Olympic football tournament kicks-off as part of next summer’s games in London few, if any, of the world’s top stars will be on show.
England superstar David Beckham wants to be involved, but the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi and Wesley Sneijder will, most likely, have better things to do.
For the latter three the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine come much higher on their list of priorities than a 16-team under-23 competition — with three over-age players allowed — that fails to capture the imagination of football fans.
Winning the Champions League or lifting the World Cup is a much greater aim, or for some simply winning their own domestic league title.
The Olympics pales in comparison. So why all the fuss about Great Britain fielding a football team at London 2012?
Well, it boils down to the English FA and British Olympic Association’s wish to ensure that a competition taking place in the country where the game began won’t happen without the hosts being involved. When that involves four countries who compete in World Cups and European Championships on their own coming together under one umbrella there are many pitfalls.
Not least of those is the fear that other nations may see a fully-fledged Great Britain team’s Olympic participation as their chance to force England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to join together permanently.
It’s more a case of divided we stand, united we fall in this situation rather than the other way around.
Supposedly an agreement has been reached between the four FAs to field a team in 2012. The BOA said as much yesterday, but it’s news to the men based in Belfast, Glasgow and Cardiff who are responsible for running the game in their own nation.
“History will be made during the London 2012 Olympic Games as Team GB returns to the pitch in men’s Olympic football for the first time in 52 years and competes in the women’s Olympic football tournament for the first time ever,” an excited BOA announced yesterday.
“The (English) FA has consulted with its partner Associations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in developing the player-selection criteria and timeline.”
That may be so, but none of those three associations have, at any time, backed the move or ever given their blessing for their players to be selected for the teams. The general consensus has been that an England team competes under the GB title.
Which is why the other three joined together in releasing a statement of their own, putting as much distance between themselves and the GB Olympic team as they possibly can.
“The Football Associations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland reiterate our collective opposition to Team GB participation at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, contrary to the media release issued by the British Olympic Association,” said the statement.
“We have been consistently clear in explaining the reason for our stance, principally to protect the identity of each national association.
“With that in mind, we cannot support nor formally endorse the approach that has been proposed by the Football Association.
“We have stressed this in communications to them and are disappointed that this has been ignored in the media release.
“No discussions took place with any of us, far less historic agreement been reached, prior to the statement from the BOA being released.
“The Associations are committed to supporting the individual Home Nations playing all representative football under their respective flags as independent members of FIFA and Uefa.”
If England manage to reach the final of Euro 2012 next summer, some, but not all, football fans across the UK will want them to win it. Hardly any will care if Great Britain — a team that is meant to represent everyone — lifts the Olympic title.
So, how does it all work?
Who plays in the Olympic football competition?
Fifa don’t want the Olympics to rival the World Cup, so there are only 16 teams in the men’s tournament and 12 in the women’s. Each of Fifa’s six confederations has their own qualification procedure. In Europe the top three teams in the previous Uefa under-21 finals are awarded the places.
Why won’t a proper Great Britain team play in the football competition in 2012?
GB played in the Olympics until 1960, but Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales want to protect their independence within Fifa and fear that having a GB team in the Olympics will lead to the four British associations being disbanded.
Weren’t they quite successful?
Yes, GB twice won Olympic gold in football, but next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the last win. Until 1984 it was an amateur tournament.
Is there a way around it?
The British Olympic Association revealed that Fifa have assured the British associations of their independence, but that’s still not enough. An exciting idea as it may be for a proper Great Britain team to play in the Olympics, it is likely to be made up of English players under the GB banner. The idea of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales all playing as independent nations as a one-off was floated, but it was deemed a non-starter.
Who might play if it were a proper GB team?
The men’s Olympic football tournament is an under-23 competition, meaning that in 2012 players must be born on or after January 1, 1989.
Many of the brightest prospects in the Premier League fit into that category. Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshire, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Jordan Henderson, Andy Carroll and Daniel Sturridge, as well as Welsh duo Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey all eligible to play.
As far as Northern Ireland are concerned Craig Cathcart, Lee Hodson, Ryan McGivern, Josh Carson, Johnny Gorman, Oliver Norwood, Corry Evans, Liam Boyce, Andrew Little and Shane Ferguson would be available for selection.
With three overage players allowed, effectively any other British player could be selected, with even speculation that David Beckham may play for Team GB.
Would any Northern Ireland players want to play and what if they did?
It is 25 years since Northern Ireland last qualified for a major finals. Therefore playing in an event as prestigious as the Olympics might seem an attractive prospect to some players and a once in a lifetime opportunity. The Irish FA and their counterparts in Scotland and Wales know they can’t block players from taking part if they wish to do so and if they were to take action against anyone who does it would be akin to cutting off their nose to spite their face. | <urn:uuid:629fa61c-f478-4158-ab04-48f02c09d421> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/theres-sweet-fa-in-olympics-plan-28629162.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966926 | 1,463 | 1.53125 | 2 |
FAA forecasted that US airlines’ collective traffic will increase at annual average rate of 2.8% over the next 20 years to reach 1.46 trillion RPMs by 2033.
The projected rate of growth is down 12.5% from FAA’s 20-year forecast last year and down 26.3% from the agency’s 2011 forecast. Despite the reduction in projected growth rates, FAA believes “aviation will continue to experience steady and modest growth,” administrator Michael Huerta said at the Aviation Forecast and Policy Summit in Washington DC.
FAA’s annual forecast, released Wednesday, predicted that US airlines’ domestic RPMs will grow 0.7% in 2013 and then average 2.2% annual growth through 2033. US carriers’ international RPMs will be flat in 2013 and then average 4.2% annual growth over the next two decades, FAA said.
FAA forecasted total US mainline and regional airline passengers carried will grow from 736.7 million in 2012 to 1.15 billion in 2033.
The agency said US mainline airlines’ passenger jet fleet will increase from 3,782 in 2012 to 4,907 in 2033, an average annual growth rate of 1.4%. FAA projected the fleet will shrink 1% in 2013 (38 fewer aircraft compared to 2012), “with all of the decrease attributed to the grounding of less fuel-efficient narrowbody aircraft.”
US airlines’ total cargo RTMs are forecasted to grow 4.6% annually over the next 20 years from 36.4 billion in 2012 to 89 billion in 2033, according to FAA.
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By BEN LEFEBVRE
The US Chemical Safety Board said Wednesday that Chevron knew for years of a problem with a corroded pipe that caused the massive fire last year at its refinery in Richmond, California.
The August fire at the 245,000 bpd refinery near San Francisco burned for hours, sending a column of thick, black smoke over the San Francisco Bay and causing an estimated 15,000 area residents with eye and respiratory problems to visit emergency rooms.
The board, an independent entity that investigates industrial accidents, said that Chevron metallurgists and inspectors had warned the company as early as 2002 about the pipe's potential to cause a major accident, but failed to replace it.
"This report confirms what Chevron already knew -- that the pipe was severely corroded and should have been replaced -- but failed to act on before the August fire," said Ellen Widess, head of the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which helped with the investigation.
The fire started in the crude-distillation unit, the first stop in the refining process where crude oil is cooked to more than 600 degrees Fahrenheit before being sent to other units.
The Chemical Safety Board criticized Chevron for not shutting down the unit while employees searched for the source of the leak fluid, which eventually turned into a vapor cloud that injured six workers.
"Continuing to troubleshoot the problem and having firefighters remove insulation searching for a leak while flammable hydrocarbons were flowing through the leaking pipe was inconsistent with good safety practices," said board chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso.
Cal/OSHA in January levied nearly $1 million in fines against Chevron after citing the company with 25 workplace-safety violations. The Chemical Safety Board does not have the power to levy fines or citations.
Chevron said it would appeal the citations. The San Ramon, Calif.-based oil company, which is still conducting an internal investigation into the accident, said it would replace any pipes in the refinery that were "unsuitable for service."
"We are implementing corrective actions that will strengthen management oversight, process safety, mechanical integrity and leak response," Chevron spokesman Sean Comey said.
Chevron expects to restart the crude unit by the end of the first quarter, Mr. Comey said.
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Today, I'm posting another kuih recipe from Malaysia. This is what's typically known as "Malaysian Doughnuts" which are made with sweet potatoes. The dough is very soft and it's meant to be that way. So, if you are going to try making them, I suggest you sprinkle some extra flour on your palm while shaping the dough. I hope you will give it a try and enjoy!
Kuih Keria (Sweet Potato Doughnuts)
2 Medium Size Sweet Potato (about 500 g),skinned
100 g All Purpose Flour, sifted
30 g Glutinous Rice Flour, sifted
1/2 tsp Sea Salt
Sugar for topping
Oil for deep-frying
Extra All Purpose Flour for dusting
Boil the sweet potatoes until soft and cool completely. Mash and mix with all the flours and salt. Shape into doughnut rings and dust with some flour.
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Harold Chestnut: Biography
Died: 29 August 2001
Harold Chestnut was born in Albany, New York, in 1917. He earned BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1939 and 1940. He received Honorary Doctorates in engineering from Case Institute of Technology in 1966 and Villanova University in 1972.
Chestnut began a life-long career in the control field with the General Electric Company in 1940. His early control work concerned stability issues in electric power systems. During the Second World War he was both a student and instructor in GE's well-known Advanced Engineering Program. During the Second World War he moved into the aeronautics and ordinance divisions of the company and remained there until 1956. In 1951 he co-authored Servomechanisms and Regulating Systems Design, Vol. 1 with R. W. Mayer, which was the leading text in the field for many years. He later wrote Volume 2 of that book, as well as System Engineering Tools, and System Engineering Methods.
Dr. Chestnut was active in the formation of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), which grew out of discussions started in 1956 among representatives from West Germany, the USSR, France, the United Kingdom, Poland and the USA. He served as IFAC's first president from 1957 through 1959 in a cold-war compromise that gave the USA the first president and the USSR the first International Congress in Moscow in 1960.
Dr. Chestnut continued with the General Electric Company until retirement in 1983. Major assignments included serving as manager of the Systems Engineering and Analysis Branch of the Advanced Technology Laboratory working on a wide variety of technical problems including reliability issues in rapid transit and the Apollo mission to the moon. Even later in his career he returned to the field of electric power. This time the focus was power systems automation.
Following retirement he concentrated on one of his long time passions in the control field - the potential for control concepts to provide insight into problems of international stability. It seems that his dedication to the use of control concepts in societal problems arose from his success in working with wary representatives from many countries to set up IFAC and with proud representatives from various US engineering societies to set up the AACC. Two years before his retirement, Dr. Chestnut received the prestigious Honda Prize for ecotechnology and with it a substantial financial award. After retirement he used this fund to create the "SWIIS Foundation", a private foundation devoted to identifying and implementing "supplemental ways to improve international stability". He devoted the last productive years of his life in the 1980s and 1990s to this effort.
Before 1963, he chaired the AIEE Technical Committees on Automatic Control and on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. He later had several other leadership roles in the IEEE, culminating in his term as President of the IEEE in 1973. He was a Fellow of the AIEE, ISA, and AAAS. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1974 and selected as a Case Centennial Scholar in 1980. He won the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984 and the AACC Bellman Heritage Award in 1985.
On the personal level, Harold Chestnut is remembered as a quiet but persistent man. Once he determined something ought to be done, he worked until he found a way to make it happen. He viewed life as one large control system that needed to be nudged from time to time to keep it running smoothly and on course. He and his wife, Erma Ruth Callaway Chestnut, were married for 57 years and had three sons. He was a devoted family man who enjoyed hiking and sailing with his family, especially at their cottage on Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks.
On August 29, 2001, Harold Chestnut died at the age of 83 in Schenectady, NY, the town in which he spent essentially all of his long and productive life.
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Sao Paulo lies some 50 miles from the ocean, immediately below the Tropic of Capricorn. The climate is nominally subtropical, but in reality the city’s weather is erratic, influenced by its altitude (just over 2,000 feet) and depressions that regularly sweep up from the cool southern Atlantic.
The summer months between December and mid-March are warm and wet. Temperatures average around 80 degrees but occasionally peak in the high 90s or drop into the 60s. Heavy rain can fall at any time, making for a potentially wet summer festival season. On December 31, the city throws a huge New Year’s Eve party (Reveillon) for more than a million revelers who pack skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista downtown to see Brazil’s top music acts perform.
February brings high season and Carnival, when the city gets its sequins out and sambas for a week. There are parties everywhere, but the biggest celebrations are in the Sambódromo stadium, where drummers, dancers, and glittering floats parade past roaring crowds. Only Rio’s celebration is more lavish.
In April, São Paulo gets back to work, keeping its head down until winter, when skies are clear and average temperatures drop into the 70s. Locals dress up as yokels for the Festas Juninas in June, donning checked shirts, jeans, and straw hats: mingling over mulled wine (vinho quente); and dancing a lively jig called forró.
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The Adams Family of Newbury, Massachusetts, Part III
The following is a continued account by an as yet unidentified historian associated with both the Adams family and the Byfield Parish church. This account was acquired by Gareldine Adams, although it is unknown whether she copied this herself, or if it was sent to her by a contact at the church.
Further investigation as to the identity of the author is being conducted by Jules Maas.
Part I discussed the name of Adams, the emigration of Robert Adams, and a few historical details about the family’s Coat of Arms.
Part II gave an account of a trial between Robert Adams’ and a thief, his arrival in Newbury, establishment of his estate and investment activities.
Robert’s descendants were an agricultural people, patriotic but although with a fine military record, seldom or never seeking any political office. Of course, we were “selectmen”, members of the legislature, etc. with a good many clergymen, some doctors and teachers, few lawyers. This trait is very pleasantly illustrated by the fact that a grandson of Robert, born at “The Highlands” went West seeking his fortune in what is now Iowa, which is not he strongest centre of our family, and now a direct descendant , Robert, now past 80, (is an) editor and banker and prominent citizen and an authority on agricultural matters, has large farms near Iowa City where the descendants of our Robert have an Adams Society which annually holds a largely attended reunion.
In 1900 Andrew N, Adams of Brattleboro published a painstaking and most excellent genealogy entitled “Robert Adams of Newbury”, now out of print but the local library has a copy. Andrew is entitled to the highest praises yet he was led into a most absurd and ridiculous error when someone here told him that Robert was a tailor. With his farms and extensive estates he had quite enough to keep him busy without sewing on patches for his neighbors and in that time and community there were no tailors outside Salem perhaps, and Boston. The local tailor, where there was one, was an itinerant tramp with no family and like his compatriot, the traveling tinker, went with his “goose and shears” from house to house where he was lodged and fed until the good man’s clothing was made or mended. Naturally, before presuming to correct Andrew’s astonishing mis-statement-statement-statement-statement, the writer made diligent research. Brought up by his grandfather and in the family with a bachelor great-uncle whose mind lived in his past as an officer in the Revolution, familiar with a diary kept faithful 1840-1969, the past seems nearer to the writer at 90 than to most people. Those old folks had a lot of dignity and my grandfather would not have presumed to sit in his father’s arm chair before the fireplace in his absence, and he and his wife’s brother always addressed each other as “Colonel”. Family trees and traditions were close and sacred, and the more so as they married cousins, preferably of the first degree. Of course, the eldest son and a many more as possible went to Harvard and every generation furnished its quota of clergymen. Joseph and Benjamin, twins, established the Old South Society (not the church here) and the First Church in Topsfield. They were born in the old house still standing at “The Highfields” in 1719 and their sister Anne with her husband, Robert Stuart, introduced the Baptist faith to New Hampshire in old Kingston.
Intense in their religious beliefs as in all things, the First Settlers were mostly Presbyterians or Congregationalists, yet in many cases retaining a wholesome respect for the Established Church of England.
All towns were divided into territorial parishes and the people all taxed for the support of the Church which was collectible at law but after diligent research, the writer has not been able to find an authenticated case where it was enforced.
For 70 years, the writer has been a student of Parish history and for 50 years, clerk of Byfield Parish, and by a pleasant gesture, made “custodian of Records without Duties” on his retirement. We have a record of every Parish meeting 1705/6 to date. As in his own case, a parishioner had no need to have any connection with the Church which has its officers and clerk.
The South Byfield Church is in practically the geographical center of the Parish which includes a part of Rowley and Georgetown and the South Easterly part of Newbury, but curiously enough, not much of what is now called Byfields, which in early days was known as Lunt’s Corner. The present Church is entirely in Georgetown.
When first established, the Parish was called Rowlbury, but Judge Byfield sent them a bell. He, by the way, was never in the Parish and believed it was a town. Chief Justice Sewell tried to have it named Belleford in memory of his sister, Mehitabel (Sewell) Moody and the ford at Newbury Falls – where her home was. The bounds of the Parish were patrolled every 5 years by committees chosen by the towns and parishes until 1836 when the legislature abolished all territorial parishes, so now Byfield has no legal existence but remains very decidedly a state of mind.
We read a good deal of slush about the bigotry of our Puritain First Settlers, but however harsh with themselves personally they may have been, consider this from the original “certificate” and record in our archives –
The first Roman Catholic to appear in Byfield was a small farmer named Walter Bogin, who quite naturally disliked to be taxed for the support of a Protestant Church. His case was considered and on the theory that all paths lead to the same place, he was told that if he would produce a certificate from a church that he ‘had contributed to its support’ his tax would be abated in the future. The roads were bad so Walter walked all the way to Boston in search of a priest and found Chevras who became the famous Bishop who gave him a card, now on file, that freed him from all future tax.
The First Settlers had few roads and there were many gates and barways. A curious law stood for many years to the effect that anyone “going to meeting” could cross any enclosed land or through any crop.
To the First Settlers the burial yard was common ground and no “lots” were sold, so when a few years ago the writer wished to enlarge his lot, he simply took a vacant space and when an attempt was made to find someone to pay, no one has been found who could take the money. Probably (1880) the last case of this kind.
Each family of the First Settlers did its work and did it well, a solid and upright people, pious, as illustrated by one family who during the experiment of growing rice, diked a meadow at expense of labor and money, but feeling that if God had intended this flooding he would have done it Himself, tore down their work. We have said little about their development of other towns for much has been better written “and their works do follow them”, also, they have many descendants of most honorable distinction. Not all the names appear on the memorial at Oldtown, but much work is being done by the Society.
Attention has recently been called to the fact that change of language has translated Feullevert to Greenleaf, DeReveiari to Revere and DeViparti…should be remember and Leonard Morrison who did more for the Byfield part of Newbury than any man before or since should not be forgotten.
In order to condense, references to records have occupied little space here as all stated as fact is easily proven, but any person interested in details on small items would be welcome to interview and criticize.
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In its slow but steady journey to full restoration, the New York City subway system is now at 80 percent of its normal service, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday.
In other words: Really. Good. News.
Helping to relieve some of the chaos still permeating the city days after Hurricane Sandy’s landfall will be the restored connection between Brooklyn and Manhattan. As of Saturday morning, the 4, 5, 6 and 7 lines were running along their normal routes, with full service also returning to the F, J, D and M lines later in the day. The Staten Island Railway returned to hourly service Saturday morning and will return to its normal schedule in time for rush hour Monday morning, officials said.
(PHOTOS: Scenes of Sandy’s Wreckage and Recovery)
More service will continue getting back on track as the weekend progresses. The A line will begin running from Lefferts Blvd. in Queens to 168th St. in Manhattan by Monday morning, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some timelines still remain unclear, but it’s also likely that by Saturday night, the Q line will resume its route from Brooklyn’s Coney Island, through Manhattan and into Queens, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman Joseph Lhota.
“Come on out and use the system,” Lhota said in a press conference. And use it, we will. Over the past week, basic 40-minute commutes turned into chaotic, hours-long ordeals as thousands fought for space on city buses and grappled with miles of gridlock. So this recent progress will certainly ease many commuters’ pain, particularly those shuttling in from outer boroughs and damaged parts of lower Manhattan.
Of course, some lines will remain suspended indefinitely. The 14th St. tube, which houses the L line — running between Brooklyn and Manhattan — remains completely submerged. (So far, five of New York’s seven under-river tunnels have been completely cleared.) Other lines, like the G, which runs between Brooklyn and Queens, could be restored next week, but the city hasn’t established a definitive timetable just yet.
As residents in New York —and all along the Eastern Seaboard — work towards recovery following a brutal, deadly storm, the nation’s largest, labyrinthine transit system is slowly roaring back to life. | <urn:uuid:312e490b-6650-4c13-8a0d-7b5134e7f437> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/03/new-yorkers-rejoice-more-than-80-percent-of-subway-service-restored/?iid=nf-main-trend-now | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948934 | 492 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Pre-dent is not a major at Marquette. It is a statement of your intention to go to dental school someday. Students in our accelerated program receive their undergraduate degrees with conditional acceptance into Marquette's School of Dentistry, the only dental school in Wisconsin. Pre-dental scholars complete their undergraduate portion in three years, then take courses that count toward their bachelor's and dental degrees in the fourth year. Pre-dental scholars get both degrees in seven years.
Most dental schools require one year each of general chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, and physics. All courses must have laboratory components. At Marquette, these requirements are met by completing:
Admission committees of some schools require or recommend additional courses as well. You should consult Admission Requirements of U.S. and Canadian Dental School, published by the American Association of Dental Schools, for the specific requirements and recommended courses for each school. Please visit your advisor and ask to view their copy of the Admission Requirements of US and Canadian Dental School. If you are interested in a particular school, you should learn as much about that school as possible as early as you can.
Admission committees consider science grade point average (GPA), overall GPA, Dental Admission Test (DAT) scores, academic and personal recommendations, personal statements, and sometimes a personal interview. They are interested in candidates who have attained good academic records and who have actively investigated the dental profession.
The Dental Admission Test is a combined aptitude and achievement exam prepared by the American Dental Association. Information about the test and application may be obtained in the Office of Pre-Professional Studies.
The test is usually taken sixteen to seventeen months before the student hopes to begin dental school. It should be noted that while physics is required for dental school, physics is not covered on the DAT. Therefore, the test can be taken after the second semester of Organic Chemistry has been completed.
To prepare for the DAT, you should review the topics and skills the test measures. This is also an excellent way to evaluate your undergraduate course choices. The sections of the test include:
Academic criteria are very important. Most schools will look very closely at the overall GPA, science GPA and DAT scores. These factors, however, are not the only items considered in evaluating the admission potential of a candidate. Integrity, motivation and the candidate's suitability for the study of dentistry are also considered.
Yes. Letters of recommendation, which indicate personal knowledge of your abilities in comparison to other students are extremely important. Most dental schools require at least three academic letters (usually one from a science professor, one from a non-science professor and a third from either science or non-science professor).
In addition, some schools also request one or two non-academic letters. The Office of Pre-Professional Studies provides a Letters of Recommendation Service.
Dental schools prefer students with interests and experiences beyond academics; however, such activities should not interfere with academic performance.
Amounts and types of financial aid vary widely from school to school. You should investigate the costs of dental school during your undergraduate career, as well as the types of loans and scholarships typically available.
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||During the first two days of February, when cold rain was falling onto ice then freezing again, the scientist, writer, and explorer Sy Montgomery was having an entirely different effect on the BWL student body. An internationally-published, award-winning author of 15 children’s and adult books about animals, Ms. Montgomery spoke about the joys of swimming with dolphins, the awe of seeing her first gorilla, and the perils of being chased by a swimming tiger. For these distinctions, The Boston Globe has called her “Part Indiana Jones and part Emily Dickinson.” By the end of her visit, all three school divisions had received their own, custom-made narrative fueled by this adventurous, inaugural spirit.
Ms. Montgomery studied journalism and French at Syracuse University and promptly went to work for the Courier-News in Bridgewater, NJ, earning a salary and keeping office hours. But then a research opportunity roused her nascent desires to become a veterinarian and, to the surprise of all, she shipped off to Australia – with no salary or health insurance -- to study emus, the second tallest birds in the world. “It was the smartest thing I ever did,” she says. “They can run 40 miles per hour and are strong enough to sever fencing wire with a single kick. We knew these things about the emu, but I was the first one to follow them each day. If you pay close attention,” she said to a background of slides showing something awesome that no student had likely thought of that day, “you can find out stuff no one else has known.”
In 1991, when she was 32, Ms. Montgomery published her first book, Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. While researching the book, she walked the same grounds as did the mentors she wrote about: Tanzania, Uganda, and Borneo, and she lived among the same animals they studied. Thus began a life of adventure, research, and writing that would take her, among other places, into a pit of 18,000 snakes in Manitoba; into the mountains of Mongolia to search for snow leopards; into the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea to radiocollar tree Kangaroos; and to French Guyana, home of the quarter-pound Goliath Bird Eater Tarantula.
With the 2010 publication of Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot, Ms. Montgomery became a three-time winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. The Good Good Pig, a memoir of her animal companion Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller. Among her many other accolades: the 2009 New England Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, the 2010 Children’s Book Guild Award, and a National Geographic documentary based on her book Spell of the Tiger. She engages her conservationist passions on the boards of the Rainforest Conservation Fund, RESTORE! The North Woods, and the Center for Tropical Conservation.
None of this pedigree, however, got between her infective rapport with the students, who asked about the most dangerous situation she had encountered, about her favorite place to visit, and of her biggest challenges. She also tasked her audience with questions that they may not have considered ever before: “Why would a vampire bat have a natural anesthetic in its drool?” (To numb its prey before biting it.) “Why would a bear with an infected tooth chew on willow bark?” (For the salicylic acid, a painkiller.)
Amid her eye-popping slides that captured this world-wide rumpus, she reminded her impressionable audience, “Everything I have ever learned I’ve found has come in handy in the field.” And, beyond simply serving as spectacles in out of the way locales, Ms. Montgomery reminded students that animals are, foremost, our teachers. “They are living by senses we have lost or never attained, with powers of scent, sight and hearing we can barely imagine. They widen our world.”
“We are on the cusp of either destroying this sweet, green Earth—or revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation,” she said. “It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.” If the many raised hands, books she signed, or sighs of awe were any gauge, Ms. Montgomery instilled these vibrant connections through all three BWL divisions. | <urn:uuid:8364ab8e-1783-49f0-b09e-0a58777d2e67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bwl.org/showpage.aspx?RelId=607448&infogroup=3986®istered=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965168 | 958 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Penny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat and Maryland Jockey President Tom Chuckas are asking the Maryland Racing Commission to conduct a hearing to consider "compelling" evidence, based upon advances in modern video technology, regarding the long-standing controversy surrounding Secretariat's winning time in the 1973 Preakness Stakes.
The electronic timer in use at Pimlico for the 1973 Preakness recorded a winning time of 1:55, a clocking that quickly became the source of controversy after two independent clockers from the Daily Racing Form had individually hand-timed the race at a much faster 1:53 2/5.
In the days following the 1973 Preakness, the stewards at Pimlico, and later the Commission, concluded that there were "extenuating circumstances" attendant to the electronic timer's recording. As a result, the official time was subsequently changed to that reported by Pimlico's official hand clocker -- 1:54 2/5. Had Secretariat's time been officially recorded as 1:53 2/5 - the time still recognized today by the Daily Racing Form - he would have beaten Canonero II's track record of 1:54 for the 1 3/16-mile distance, set during the 1971 Preakness Stakes. Instead, the Preakness wound up being the only "jewel" of Secretariat's three Triple Crown race victories in which he did not establish a new track record.
"For me, revisiting this dispute on a new day is matter of resolution - for historians, for sportswriters and for racing fans," said Mrs. Chenery. "Their voices are supported by sound evidence, and they deserve to be heard."
"During the last 40 years, video technology has been accepted in other professional sports as a supportive mechanism for officials to ensure fairness and accuracy in their decisions," said Maryland Jockey Club President Tom Chuckas. "It is important for horse racing and the record books to confirm the correct time in this historical race. It is the appropriate thing to do."
In later runnings of the second leg of the Triple Crown, Tank's Prospect (1985), Louis Quatorze (1996) and Curlin (2007) separately established the current, officially - recognized Preakness Stakes record time of 1:53 2/5.
The track record at Pimlico for 1 3/16 miles is held by Farma Way with a time of 1:52 2/5 when he won the 1991 Pimlico Special.
The June 19 Maryland Racing Commission meeting will be held at Laurel Park beginning at 1:00 pm and is open to the public.
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The following section presents the Battelle team's findings and recommendations for "next steps." While the discussion previously in Section 4.6 focused on specific technology and operational issues and lessons learned, this section takes a broader, more macro-observation of the findings of the deployment team and translates those into what the team believes should be considered (at the macro/national level) for future consideration by the U.S. DOT.
5.1 Hazardous Materials Industry
The hazmat industry participants in the FOT were selected by the Battelle Team as being representative of those companies involved with the hazmat shipment categories identified as being of higher concern in the threat and vulnerability assessment. Participating hazmat carriers are categorized in Table 16 below:
Table 16. FOT Carrier Size and Commodity Characteristics
|Carrier||Sector||Size (Annual Revenues)||Hazmat Grouping|
|1: Dupre Transport||Tank||$65,525,630||Bulk Fuel|
|2: Cox Petroleum||Tank||$21,296,620||Bulk Fuel|
|3: Distribution Tech||LTL||NA*||LTL High Hazard|
|4: Roadway Express||LTL||$2,671,185,850||LTL High Hazard|
|5: Transport Service||Tank||$74,413,700||Bulk Other|
|6: Roeder Cartage||Tank||$9,036,200||Bulk Other|
|7: Quality Distribution||Tank||$579,610,000||Bulk Other|
|8: R&R Trucking||Tank||$48,132,000||Bulk Other|
|9: Dyno Transportation||Truckload||$13,587,723||Truckload Explosives|
*NA: Not available
In addition, the state agencies offered a diverse mix of agency types, sizes, and geographic location. These agencies were the California Highway Patrol, the Illinois State Police, the New York State Police, and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Even with the broad representation of participants in the FOT, it was very limited in size and scope. There are many more stakeholders (public and private) that could be involved in future projects of this nature.
5.2 Technology Issues and Opportunities
The technologies selected for the FOT can be readily plotted on myriad continuums, such as:
- Level of market usage and acceptance (commonly to rarely used)
- Unit costs (low to high)
- Management costs (low to high)
- Ease-of-use (easy to challenging)
- Technology sophistication (simple to complex; low-tech to high-tech)
While none of the technologies tested would be described as prototypes, several have very limited prior field usage outside of government applications. For example, the vehicle disabling technology is not currently a commercially available product in the United States. However, it is commercially available in other countries such as Brazil. In Brazil, the primary use for this technology has been to stop or deter theft (either of the product or the entire vehicle). The legal climate in Brazil is more conducive (than that of the United States) to the implementation of such technologies at this time. Nevertheless, all the technologies represent the most logical technology application for the particular threat and vulnerability based on a series of research studies and field tests. These technologies are categorized by focus area in Table 17.
Table 17. Technologies by Focus Area
|Vehicles||Wireless tracking and management|
|Cargo||Electronic trailer seals|
Remote door locks
Electronic data management
At a high level, most of the tested technologies were well accepted by system users. In some cases, this was based on an existing understanding and familiarity with a common marketplace system such as wireless vehicle tracking. With other systems such as biometrics, there was an acceptance that national security issues and programs (e.g., U.S. Patriot Act) made biometrics an inevitable reality.
Based on qualitative research, it was extremely evident that different stakeholders within the FOT had different perspectives according to their roles; opinions differed across technology investment decision makers, day-to-day users, government regulators, and technology vendors. For example, electronic seals seemed to have higher acceptance among carrier management than among drivers.
The use of fingerprints as an ID system was generally accepted from a security and policy perspective. Nevertheless, biometric system design issues quickly caused driver frustration and backlash. This should not be entirely surprising given that biometric usage in the transportation sector is nearly non-existent. Considerably more resources and testing are needed to ensure that biometrics are designed and applied in a logical and functional manner.
5.2.2 Wireless Vehicle Tracking and Communications
The trucking industry has a long history with wireless vehicle communications and asset tracking, making this component of the FOT one of the most accepted and entrenched of the applied technologies. The technical merits and characteristics of the different technologies that make up this grouping are well understood.
Satellite systems, which include GPS, voice and text communications, and other satellite-based functionalities, presently require good satellite coverage and the well known "line-of-sight" condition (i.e., to be effective, they cannot be blocked by thick vegetation, tall buildings, or tunnels). Therefore, vehicles can lose satellite signals in urban areas, underpasses, and, more rarely, areas with a gap in satellite coverage. From a security standpoint, solutions to this inherent problem are challenging since a conservative policy would be to initiate some action whenever there is a loss of signal. An evolving solution is to utilize hybrid systems that automatically switch between satellites and terrestrial systems based on signal strength and availability.
Terrestrial systems also have technology-based limitations such as gaps in signal coverage in lower density areas, signal interference, and proprietary/interoperability system issues.
5.2.3 Cargo Management
There were several different systems tested in the FOT that focused on identifying and/or protecting the cargo and trailer. Intuitively, these seem to be the most effective and immediate approach since the hazmat cargo itself is the primary concern from a terrorism standpoint. It is interesting that these systems are the least developed and tested of all the systems, at least within the trucking industry.
Electronic seals have received considerable attention over the last few years, with many of the proposed benefits derived from military applications. However, outside of limited U.S. DOT tests, wireless e-seals have little to no presence in the private sector transportation industry. One reason may be the complexity and variability of the seals themselves; almost without exception, each seal is based on a different proprietary system and/or "standard" making integration and interoperability nearly impossible across different e-seal systems.
The second issue is cost. The lower-cost disposable seals typically cost between $3 and $15 per seal. Even in a truckload environment where cargo access is less frequent, it is likely that several seals would be required every day for each truck. If cargo security inspections at weigh stations and border crossings were to increase as expected, the value of disposable seals would be further eroded.
The alternative is the reusable e-seal, one of which was tested in the FOT. Outside of common issues generally associated with wireless devices (e.g., loss of signal, power management issues, user-friendliness), the primary concern with reusable seals is their high unit cost. While the seal itself may only cost $30 to $50, the requisite support system (e.g., seal readers), typically raises the cost into the hundreds of dollars per truck. With well-documented operating margins of less than five percent, the trucking industry would be hard-pressed to outfit the three million plus trailers that operate on the U.S. transportation system.
5.2.4 Trailer Locks
Electronic trailer locks show some promise from a qualitative user standpoint since cargo theft continues to be a leading problem for the trucking industry. But surprisingly, the Technology Compendium discussed in Section 2.3 and Appendix C indicates that electronic trailer locks are not well established in the industry. Dramatically different trailer configurations along with cost issues can be cited as a likely explanation.
5.2.5 Electronic Freight Data
The Electronic Supply Chain Manifest provided the FOT participants with advanced encrypted hazmat cargo data, which, in theory, should enhance security and cargo management functionality. Participants generally agreed that supply chain management systems are essential, but without tangible efficiency gains from the ESCM system, usage was limited. One potential reason for the limited ESCM usage is that the companies recruited for the FOT did not have frequent runs. Government stakeholders, on the other hand, are beginning to require advance submission of electronic freight data, thus ensuring that some variation of an ESCM system will continue. For example, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through U.S. Customs is requiring a 4-hour advance notice for incoming international cargo shipments and the FHWA is in the early stages of developing an electronic freight manifest project to look at potential efficiencies and security enhancements of an international in-bound air cargo electronic freight manifest system. Future iterations ought to expand the efficiency benefits through new services and functionality and improve systems integration so full supply chain management benefits are realized.
5.2.6 Exception-Based Testing
To counter a likely scenario that a terrorist would interfere with some aspect of the vehicle tracking system, a loss-of-signal component was designed and tested. While it generally worked within the logical parameters designed by the research team, for the reasons cited in Section 5.3.2 (primarily non-terrorist/system-based issues), more sophisticated designs and technical parameters are probably necessary.
Two variations of geofencing were tested, best described as out-of-route alerts and critical infrastructure approach. The functional difference between the two is where the circle of influence and notification layseither with the mobile vehicle or with the static infrastructure. The basic functionality shows promise beyond the obvious security applications. Integration with carriers' existing route planning systems would dramatically improve the utility of geofencing.
5.2.8 Trailer Tracking
Two variations of trailer tracking were tested, tethered and untethered. Prior to 9/11, theft was one of the biggest issues facing the industry. Tethered trailer tracking provided valid hook and drop data points to dispatchers via satellite.
Untethered trailer tracking, currently used on heavy equipment, was also tested as a concept technology. This again utilized satellite communications to the dispatcher but allows the trailer to communicate even when separated from the tractor. This provides visibility of the trailer at all times. Trailer tracking provides critical information about the location and status of the cargo that can be used to identify potential security violations.
5.3 Data Privacy Issues
It must be pointed out that various non-disclosure agreements were developed and signed as part of the FOT. This is indicative of the sensitive nature of information which included proprietary technology information, competitive operating data, and concerns about government access and use of private sector data and processes.
This issue will become more prominent as new government programs and systems require more data input and manipulation, and the private sector becomes more sensitive to the new disclosure demands. One opportunity for resolving these issues may lie with the FHWA Freight Information Highway initiative which, among other things, is attempting to develop new data-sharing agreements and partnerships between business and government.
5.4 Summary of Findings
The Battelle Team identified a number of key findings:
- Personnel expectations differ by roles and responsibilities. All stakeholder levels must be managed and trained, taking into account each group's expectations and perspectives.
- Technologies must meet the financial requirements of freight industry investors and decision makers and the ease-of-use needs of drivers and attendants.
- Multifunctional security technologies would promote higher system usage by the trucking industry.
- To support national security policies and programs, technology vendors should work together to focus on standardization of data and systems with an ultimate goal of system interoperability and/or data interchanges.
- Differing public- and private-sector expectations for returns on safety and security initiatives support the premise that costs and benefits should be determined and assigned to different beneficiaries. Carrier benefit costs should be borne by industry; societal benefit costs should be borne by society. | <urn:uuid:4d99d9d9-8763-4eb8-a808-b7ced51a79a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fmcsa.dot.gov/safety-security/hazmat/fot/finalrpt/chap5.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939454 | 2,554 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Director of the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Alejandro Mayorkas administers the Oath of Allegiance.
Alexandria In celebration of Citizenship Day, 26 Virginia residents took the oath of allegiance to the United States and were sworn in as citizens on Sept. 11 in Market Square. Senior advisor to President Barack Obama Valerie Jarrett delivered the keynote address. The 26 new citizens hail from 20 different countries. Jarrett noted that all continents except for Antarctica were represented in the audience. | <urn:uuid:0a172ad1-c34d-462f-92d2-e00695060f02> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2012/oct/03/26-new-citizens-sworn-market-square/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958955 | 97 | 1.742188 | 2 |
- During 1999-2001, the average calls for child abuse referrals in Shasta County was 4723 calls per year; 70 percent higher than California. The most reported type of abuse was general neglect (37.8 percent).
- Between 1997-2000, Shasta County averaged 1,298 domestic violence calls per year; 30 percent higher than California.
- During 1999-2001, an average of 495 children under 18 years of age were in foster care in Shasta County; 9 percent higher than California.
Sobering statistics. That’s why I’ve signed up to Walk a Mile in Her Shoes at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Caldwell Park in Redding.
I’ll be wearing the shoes your see there on the right.
OK, that’s funny. If you want to see me wobble 5,280 feet in these things (which I got online from a ‘Diva’ Web site), by all means come out and put down some cash.
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Via Grits for Breakfast, everybody’s after a piece of that asset forfeiture pie.
Perhaps no issue proves more quietly contentious in the local law enforcement community than how the seized currency – about $14.6 million in 5 1/2 years – is divided among agencies hungry for revenue in a struggling economy.
In the end, only about 6.4 percent – or roughly $935,000 – of those seizures have remained in the area to benefit regional law enforcement agencies and taxpayers, according to hundreds of pages of documents released by the DPS in response to a public information request by the Amarillo Globe-News.
Records indicate DPS officials often choose to bypass Panhandle state courts in exchange for Amarillo’s federal court when the largest amounts of money are at stake. It’s a decision that has left some I-40 district attorneys frustrated and raised concerns the federal court route gives DPS an easier and larger payday at the expense of local counties and taxpayers.
Of course, none of that money should even come close to going to any law enforcement or court agency. It is a perversion of the justice system to have law enforcement policy and enforcement/prosecution decisions potentially influenced by how much money could end up coming to the agency.
If I was President (and no, that’s not likely to happen), this is one reform I think I could take on even without Congress (because of course no Congress is likely to agree with what I would do). Just an Executive Order. You see, currently, the feds offer an 80-20 split (80 going to the state law enforcement agency) when they’re involved in an asset forfeiture case. This provides incentive for agencies to involve the feds, because they get to have more money (often bypassing state law that requires it to be used for other things).
My Executive Order would direct how seized funds in joint federal-local actions would be handled:
- In states where there is a mechanism for seized funds to go to a non-law enforcement purpose (ie, education, etc.), then the state will get the 80% (with funds going directly to the state for that purpose, not to the law enforcement agency).
- In states where there is no qualified mechanism for insuring that seized funds don’t go to law enforcement, then the federal government keeps 100%.
- All federal seized funds go to deficit reduction.
This would encourage states to have a non-law enforcement seizure distribution method in order to get the most money, while eliminating the perverse incentive of law enforcement to make decisions based on the cash they might get.
Of course, there’s more reform in this area needed. At the least, asset forfeiture should require that the property owner be convicted of a crime and that prosecution proves the assets were ill-gotten gains of that crime, but that kind of reform would also require Congressional action. | <urn:uuid:e1964334-6dc5-45d7-a61c-35eb90836d30> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drugwarrant.com/2010/11/distribution-of-wealth-on-i-40/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953471 | 594 | 1.5625 | 2 |
On June 13, 1971, The New York Times published the first explosive stories based on Pentagon studies of the decision-making that led the United States to war in Vietnam. After the Times was enjoined from publishing further, The Washington Post obtained much of the same material and produced its own stories. The Nixon administration, claiming a massive breach of national security, fought for restraint all the way to the Supreme Court, which on June 30, in the last opinion by Justice Hugo Black, decided 6-3 in favor of the newspapers. The outcome was a glorious victory for a robust press and launched an era of aggressive reporting about Washington. What a time it was.
The 47 volumes of documents and reports known as the Pentagon Papers were prepared on the orders of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, whose own gloomy judgments on Vietnam in that era were not publicly revealed until decades later in his memoirs. It has been so long since Vietnam entered American consciousness that the arrival off-Broadway of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and the late Leroy Aarons definitely feels like a historical artifact. Cowan, dean emeritus of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism, and Aarons, who was a reporter at The Washington Post at the time of the case, wrote a version of the play in the early 1990s that was presented on National Public Radio. As revised by Cowan, a lawyer, writer, former director of the Voice of America, and cultural entrepreneur, a staged version of the drama has now toured the country and been featured at universities as well as theaters in Los Angeles and Washington.
For performances at the New York Theater Workshop (it runs until March 28), Cowan arranged for twelve benefit evenings on behalf of organizations such as Human Rights Watch, the Center for Public Integrity, and the Columbia Journalism Review, where panelists discussed the impact of the case and, significantly, its relevance to the issues of today. At the CJR evening (which was taped by C-SPAN for airing sometime in the near future), the panel had an all-star cast.
Daniel Ellsberg was a former Pentagon official who, having turned against the war, gave the papers to the The New York Times and The Washington Post in the belief that the revelations they contained would undermine the conflict. Ellsberg was the subject last year of an Oscar-nominated documentary called The Most Dangerous Man in America, which is what National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger once said of him on a Nixon White House tape. He clearly has never lost his outraged edge, calling the war against the Taliban "Vietnamistan" and insisting that officials critical of American policies in the region should publicly renounce them.
Leslie Gelb was project director for the Pentagon Papers and later gained eminence as a journalist at the Times and as president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He revealed that in 1969, when he brought the finished papers to McNamara, then president of the World Bank, the former defense secretary sent them back. Gelb never asked McNamara why he rejected his own report and, to Gelb's personal relief, he was never asked to defend the papers.
James Goodale was, as general counsel of The New York Times, instrumental in the decision to publish the contents of the papers, despite warnings from outside counsel to the newspaper of dire consequences. Goodale, who is a commentator on media issues, focused on the resources and time the newspaper had devoted to the publication, clearly raising the question of whether any publication today would match that commitment.
Nicholas Lemann was a young reporter at The Washington Post in the years when the Post was still riding the crest of its role in the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. He is dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Nowadays, he observed, classified documents would be posted on the Internet by an Ellsberg-like whistleblower, sidestepping the epic free press issues or at least raising different ones. But the great challenge now, Lemann said, is to maintain news-gathering enterprises with a zeal for old-school investigative reporting.
Ultimately, the contents of the Pentagon Papers mattered less to events than the great confrontation over whether the press could override government's objections to their release. So if you get a chance to see Top Secret or watch the panel on C-SPAN, here's what to remember: important decisions being made today by proprietors and journalists will be judged by history. Let's hope they meet the test. | <urn:uuid:66d6a65d-37e9-4b6c-b5ca-578b206ff4fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/03/pentagon-papers-the-glory-days-of-journalism/37874/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969149 | 917 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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Tegucigalpa is the capital and largest city in Honduras and has roughly 900,000 inhabitants living in the city, 1,4 million in the total urban area. The city is located in the south central part of the country at an elevation of nearly 1000 meters above sea level. It is the political, economic and cultural heart of the country, but compared to other sights and landmarks in the country, Tegucigalpa is not particularly interesting, nor attractive for travellers and some extra safety precautions are advised as well, especially after dawn. Both culturally as well as naturally though, there are many nearby villages and parks within short distance of the city, making daytrips when basing yourself in Tegucigalpa possible.
Tegucigalpa enjoys a pleasant tropical climate with warm and relatively humid weather but because of its elevation temperatures and humidity are more bearable than for example in the north. Temperatures average around 28 °C during the day and 18 °C at night. March to May is slightly warmer though. The dry season lasts from November until April, after which the rains start to fall, ending in October again.
Toncontín International Airport (TGU) near Tegucigalpa has several airlines with international connections including TACA to and from Miami, San Salvador and Guatemala City. Several airlines have flights to Belize and Nicaragua and other destinations include Panama City and Houston. Islena Airlines has some domestic connections to La Ceiba and San Pedro Sula. Some other small airlines serve a number of domestic flights, also to Roatan.
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This small focus installation features the first film title sequence to enter MoMA’s collection as a design work in its own right, along with related preparatory material. As memorable as the film itself, the title sequence of Goldfinger (1964) captures the sexual suggestiveness and wry humor of the James Bond mythos. Scenes from the film are projected strategically onto starlet Margaret Nolan, while minimal credit texts balance each shot. It was designer and art director Robert Brownjohn (American, 1926–1970) who conceived, designed, and directed this sequence, one of the best examples of title design used to produce a salient film component, rather than a necessary afterthought. Brownjohn's short but influential career integrated the fields of design, advertising, film, photography and music. He moved in 1960 to London, where he was at the epicenter of the burgeoning “swinging '60s" scene. Brownjohn deployed type in dynamic, abstract forms, in this case illustrating both his mastery of modern graphic design and his ability to apply sophisticated graphic treatment to popular media.
Organized by Juliet Kinchin, Curator, and Aidan O’Connor, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.
Architecture and Design Collection Exhibitions are made possible by Hyundai Card Company.
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Route Grade Votings
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16m. The steep wall used to have some pebbles on its left-hand side. These have fallen off but you can still climb the slab on its right at about the same grade. The flake crack above gives sanctuary. Short-lived but both absorbing and gripping.
The pebbles aren't there anymore, so the route is usually climbed slightly to the right of the original line.
this is an absolute quality route far better than anything in the east such as pebble mill,the route originally came in from the right arete or it can still be started direct up the seam,a few pebbles seemed to have come off,but they dont seem to be of significance, i have done it recently and just as good and absorbing as when i first did it in 1989
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On the annual occasion of World AIDS day, CFR health expert Laurie Garrett points to problems in tracking and addressing the disease.
Watch David Rothkopf, president and chief executive officer of Garten Rothkopf, and C. Ford Runge, distinguished McKnight university professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, discuss the potential impact of the increasing demand for biofuels on global energy and food security.
Listen to David Rothkopf, president and chief executive officer of Garten Rothkopf, and C. Ford Runge, distinguished McKnight university professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, discuss the potential impact of the increasing demand for biofuels on global energy and food security.
In Prospect Magazine, Bella Harris writes about Cuba in a post-Castro era. She concludes that little has changed over recent years and life for most Cubans remains harsh. Yet western visitors continue to romanticize the place as a viable alternative to western capitalism.
Observers of Cuba speculate that Raul Castro wants a liberalized, China-style economy for his hermetic island. But so far, scant evidence exists to back that analysis.
Caleb McCarry, Cuba transition coordinator at the U.S. State Department, discusses U.S. policy toward Cuba and U.S. government support for a democratic transition in Cuba.
Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) and Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA) discuss U.S. Cuba policy in light of their recent trip to the country.
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A large delegation of U.S. lawmakers travels to Cuba, and sees little sign of change since Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother, Raul.
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Fidel Castro’s July decision to temporarily turn over the reins of power to his brother Raul increasingly looks permanent. Many wonder what changes, if any, to expect from Raul—or from U.S. policymakers.
CFR Senior Fellow Julia E. Sweig debunks the conventional wisdom on what is going to happen in Cuba after Fidel Castro dies. She also discusses the future of U.S.-Cuba relations.
U.S.-Cuban relations have been virtually nonexistent since 1961, when the United States assumed a two-pronged policy of economic embargo and diplomatic isolation. Now that Fidel has transferred power to his younger brother, Raul, some experts think the United States should reconsider its policy toward Cuba. Philip Peters of the Lexington Institute and Dennis Hays, the State Department's former Coordinator for Cuban Affairs, debate how the United States should engage with a post-Castro Cuba.
Special operations play a critical role in how the United States confronts irregular threats, but to have long-term strategic impact, the author argues, numerous shortfalls must be addressed.
The author analyzes the potentially serious consequences, both at home and abroad, of a lightly overseen drone program and makes recommendations for improving its governance.
A groundbreaking analysis of what the changes in American energy mean for the economy, national security, and the environment. More
A roadmap for the United States' greatest overlooked foreign policy challenge of our time--relations with its southern neighbor. More
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The Pathology (Laboratory) Department at Springhill Medical Center offers laboratory services 24 hours a day to inpatients and outpatients of all ages. The laboratory functions along with the medical staff, nursing services, surgical services and other ancillary departments to provide quality, effective clinical services throughout the hospital. Springhill's clinical laboratory, under the direction of Michel H. Shain, M.D., is accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP). Springhill's lab is one of a select group that has been evaluated and found to be in compliance with the CAP accreditation standards designed to help ensure quality patient care. The CAP's program has long been considered the "gold standard" against which others are measured. Springhill's anatomical pathology service is provided by Pathology Laboratory Associates (PLA) and is also accredited by CAP.
What is the difference between Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology?
Anatomic pathology relates to the processing of surgical and gynecological specimens. Its subsections usually include surgical pathology, histology and cytology. Clinical pathology is the division that processes the test requests more familiar to the general public; such as blood cell counts, coagulation studies, urinalysis, blood glucose level determinations and throat cultures. Its subsections include chemistry, hematology, microbiology, urinalysis and blood bank.
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How GATS could affect your life
Austere, bespectacled, rail-thin European trade commissioner Pascal Lamy hardly looks the part of the 1930s gangland movie bad guy. And yet he's got a hold of your future and is doing all he can to hand it over to the transnational corporations. The vehicle for Lamy's villainy is an obscure trade agreement called GATS, or the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
The agreement itself may be a less-than-riveting read, but its significance is relatively easy to grasp. All human activities are to become, in the fullness of time, profit-oriented commodities that can be invested in and traded. And GATS will make this irreversible. GATS is not a finished treaty but an open-ended framework agreement that mandates "successive rounds of negotiations". The goal of these negotiations is to "achieve progressively higher" levels of liberalisation. What's not opened up today will be dealt with tomorrow until, presumably, all services are opened to all comers by all countries in all "modes" of delivery.
Twelve broad categories are covered by GATS.
These are: services to business; communications; construction and engineering; distribution; education; environment; financial services; health and social services; tourism; sports, culture and entertainment; transport; and, in case anything is not covered by the preceding 11, "other". Energy, previously considered a good, comes under "other".
A total of 160 sub-categories cover everything from postal services to scientific research, architecture, publishing and rubbish collection. Sometimes when I'm giving a talk on GATS I read out this list of categories at breakneck speed and ask if anyone in the audience is not worried about how the agreement will affect their lives.
The truth is, "public service" is an alien concept in GATS-world. GATS' only goal is to encourage more trade. Article I of GATS starts with a proclamation that the agreement does not apply to "services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority". This sounds great, except that this exemption is immediately followed by a qualifier: such governmental services must be supplied "neither on a commercial basis nor in competition with one or more service suppliers".
Bought any postage stamps lately? Or tube or train tickets? Seen a private school or clinic anywhere in your neighbourhood? Maybe in North Korea or Cuba there might just be public services that aren't delivered on a commercial basis or in competition with other suppliers, but not anywhere else.
Article VI, 4 is equally alarming. It would give GATS powers to interfere, via the WTO's Dispute Resolution Body (DRB), with government efforts to pass "measures" ("laws, regulations, rules, procedures, decisions, administrative actions or any other forms") that are deemed to constitute "unnecessary barriers to trade in services" or which are considered "more burdensome than necessary to ensure the quality of a service". GATS will develop "disciplines" to keep regulation under strict control and will apply a "necessity test" through which outsiders will determine what's necessary and what's not.
The GATS Working Party on Domestic Regulation, which is responsible for developing these "disciplines", recently targeted "unreasonable environmental and safety standards" in the area of maritime transport. That was three weeks before the Prestige disaster. Subsidies "may have distortive effects on trade in services" so they too will be subject to "disciplines". No one can predict what this may mean for domestic service suppliers that receive preferential treatment from their governments.
Since last year's WTO ministerial meeting in Doha, the GATS negotiations have entered an accelerated phase. In conditions of strict secrecy, all WTO member governments "requested" their counterparts opened up their service sectors to foreign competition. The request phase ended on June 30, 2002. The GATS negotiations are now, until March 31, 2003, in the "offers" phase. Based on the requests received, countries are replying to each other and announcing which service sectors they are prepared to open to foreign suppliers. Once a service is opened to one foreign supplier, it must be opened to all of them.
Thanks to leaks, we know what sectors the EU has asked 29 of its major trading partners to open to EU service suppliers. Among its more prominent demands are the total privatisation of postal services, and the liberalisation of large chunks of environmental services, energy, transport and scientific research.
Would you like to know what services the EU is "offering" in your name? Or what services its trading partners, especially the governments of poorer countries, are "offering" to the EU? So would we all, but we've not been so lucky with leaks in this regard.
Commissioner Lamy says it's "traditional" not to disclose negotiating positions, and that our partners want them kept secret. It's traditional in some societies to stone women, electrocute criminals or mutilate the genitalia of small girls. That doesn't make these practices right.
Anti-GATS activists will be delivering "presents for Lamy" from all over Europe on December 11. They'll be decorated with lobbying materials local groups have produced against GATS, and will be accompanied to Lamy's office by MEPs who have signed a call for transparency of the GATS negotiations. Public sector workers will also be represented. In the UK, the World Development Movement has produced some outstanding resources about GATS. Visit the WDM's website to find out more.
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Blantyre, Malawi (AFP) Jan 11, 2013
Three people have died, and nearly 5,000 households have been ruined as floods swept through parts of Malawi, officials told AFP on Friday.
Heavy rains and strong winds brought deadly flooding the centre and south of the African nation.
"As of yesterday, three people have died from the disasters," said Gift Mafuleka, deputy director of the department of disaster management.
Mafuleka said the inhabitants of at least 4,929 households had been displaced.
One person was killed when their home collapsed and two others were washed away by flood waters.
The government has launched a relief effort to provide affected districts with food supplies, blankets and plastic sheeting.
It appealed for donations of basic items, particularly food.
"The government cannot do this alone," said Mafuleka. "We are calling upon local donors to come and help with relief."
"Food is most important to the victims as they have lost everything."
The annual rains which accompany the southern hemisphere's summer often spell misery for many in a country where homes are often built with mud and grass.
"Those displaced are being accommodated in churches and schools," Anatazio Chibwana, a district commissioner for Phalombe said.
He said he feared that more people would be affected as the rains intensified on Friday.
Bringing Order To A World Of Disasters
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A world of storm and tempest
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On August 26, 2010 at a town hall meeting at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Governor Bob McDonnell stated, in response to a question I posed on global warming, that the science of anthropogenic climate change was debatable. When I countered that there was not significant debate on this issue, he replied, “I’m telling you, there is.”
At that same town meeting I also spoke with Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources and Senior Advisor on Energy, Maureen Matsen. She stated that the science is not clear that climate change is man made, going on to say that, in any event, addressing energy issues was synonymous with addressing anthropogenic climate change. The problem with this reply is that it implies that as long as we get the amount of energy we need, it does not matter that the source of energy is climate harming fossil fuels. When I suggested to her that the United States has hundreds of years of coal and natural gas, and, therefore, there would be no reason to develop renewables except for concern with greenhouse gases, she chose not to respond.
I thereupon sent freedom of information requests to both Governor McDonnell and the Secretary of Natural Resources, asking each to produce any documents they had to support their positions that anthropogenic climate change was invalid science or debatable. The response was: Continue reading “FOIA Requests Sent to Richmond on Global Warming” »
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Colonialism is Not Dead
By Ella Baccouche at Feb 04, 2011
Colonialism is not dead. The policy of western powers subverting Third World governments has taken a disguise under the banner of Globalization. Instead of George, Henry, and Francois directly ruling over a particular population, the colonial powers have installed agents that are members of those groups to do their bidding for them. The relationship is similar to that of a master to his slave. The only difference is that these slaves are getting paid. But, they must follow the master’s orders which invariably include suppressing their indigenous populations. Disenfranchisement, poverty, fear to dissent, disappearance, and police brutality and torture have taken a horrific toll on the lives of these groups. We are now witnessing the ugly consequences of colonial subversion in the Middle East.
We hear the cries of freedom from the Egyptian people. In fact, their cries can be heard throughout the Universe. Their bravery, perseverance, and determination are admirable and make me proud to say that I feel like an Egyptian, too. They are in the belly of a gigantic monster who insists on stealing their resources and keeping them impoverished. Mubarek, the agent of western colonial powers, has been President of Egypt for nearly 30 years. He gave a speech on the 28th of January declaring that he was an Egyptian who wanted to die in Egypt, and could never consider leaving his country. He was apparently trying to appeal to the protestors’ sense of patriotism. It didn’t work. The protestors still want him and his whole regime to step down from power. Again, as in Tunisia, we see the protestors targeting the slave instead of the slave’s masters.
Mubarek is not a patriot. Given the current events, we can see that he has absolutely no interest in the welfare of his people. He has so much blood on his hands. He has betrayed his people by siding with his masters. Obviously, he only listens to his masters, the colonial powers, especially the Washington consensus which includes the White House, CIA, State Department, and the almighty Pentagon. I shiver when I say that word (Pentagon). We do know that the colonial powers can’t afford to lose Egypt to democratic forces. My curiosity as to what Mubarek was told to do was soon satisfied. I recognized immediately the “divide to rule” playbook used by America most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Divide the people into groups; anti-Mubarek, pro-Mubarek, Sunnis, Shiites, Christians, Muslims, Muslim Brotherhood, whatever, etc. And then, instigate a fight between them. Why do you think the Pentagon sold the Egyptian government billions of dollars worth of guns, tanks, and other essential munitions? The guns are to suppress the people while they are being economically raped.
The disappearance of the security forces for days only to reappear disguised as the pro-Mubarek supporters was apparently meant to fool the people. They were characterized by the press as symbols of Egyptian patriotism, salvaging the pride and honor of their President and country, and saving the day. These Attila-the-Hun type gangbusters rushed into the crowd of relatively peaceful protestors on horses and camels with whips in their hands. They were, supposedly, the true patriots. They pummeled the protestors with rocks, bricks, water hoses, fire bombs, tear gas (made in the good ole USA) and anything they could get their hands on. Shots were heard. This is in a country where the people are not allowed to own guns. The police and the army have guns. A huge battle ensued between the pro and anti-Mubarek forces. It was reported that three people died and over 600 were injured including women and children. Can these violent criminal acts be interpreted as acts of patriotism? The Egyptian army joined the rest of us watching these horrible surreal events going down and did nothing. Were they ordered to do that? Hmmmm…..?
Obama supposedly spoke to Mubarek and assured the world that America was with the people of Egypt. Obama’s speech was very ambivalent. He said that the transition must begin now. Transition to what was never clear. It is clear from the recent turn of events that he didn’t mean “democracy.” Furthermore, when Obama spoke of America’s support of the “people”, did he mean the millions of Egyptians in all parts of the world clamoring for political change or those so-called patriots, protectors of the Egyptian motherland, Johnny-come-lately pro-Mubarek forces. In any case, it is clear that Mubarek wants those protestors to vacate Talrir Square.
Hilary Clinton remarked that America should not dictate the terms of Egyptian democracy. Seriously now, can Washington refute the words of Michel Chossudovsky? “Dictators don’t dictate orders, they obey orders.” The efforts of suppressing the voices of the people “by any means necessary” by the Ben Ali's and Mubareks of the world support his claims. According to Chossudovsky, the problem is that the people, the subjects of tyranny, are quite unaware of the insidious, subversive, and utterly destructive role of the US in their internal politics. And remember the rule that the military and business interests of the colonizers must not be violated by these popular uprisings. Colonialism is, indeed, in a crisis situation in the Middle East. Let it not live on undisturbed by the cries of the oppressed.
Copyright © 2011 Ella Russell
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The worst of times
There has never been a worse time to introduce auto-enrolment, says Teresa Hunter
It is foolhardy to try to guess when we will climb out of the current economic turmoil. In most previous recessions, we would be well through of the thick of things after four years of deteriorating growth.
But this, as the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, likes to remind us, is no ordinary recession. Living standards have fallen at the fastest rate since the 1920s. His prediction that high inflation and wage restraints would see incomes slide by the end of this year back to the level of 2005 looks about right.
A typical family will see their incomes fall by £4,600 in real terms by 2013 according to Unhappy Families, a report from the TUC. Was there ever a worse time to enrol workers into a pension scheme for the first time, thereby taking anything up to a further 6 per cent out of their wage packets?
The big unknown is what will happen when the ball starts rolling next October. Indeed, it could begin even earlier. Firms have the option to begin three months before the deadline, and many of the big supermarkets are expected to launch next July.
Initially, only large companies will be caught, which was supposed to smooth the transition. Conventional wisdom has it that this stage will pass almost unnoticed. As most large companies already have schemes, they will be merely mopping up the odd member of staff who somehow slipped through the net, or so the chatter has it.
As ever, the conventional wisdom is wrong on almost every count. Although large employers have large numbers of pensioned staff, they may well also have the most significant numbers outside pension arrangements, such as fleets of lorry drivers, and other contract, casual or temporary workers.
Furthermore, according to Standard Life, many of these companies do not intend to use the Government’s Nest scheme. Rather, they will continue to run their existing defined contribution schemes, into which these individuals will now be enrolled.
These staff are, by their very nature, at the bottom of the pay scale. Joining the company’s existing company arrangements could cost them the loss of perhaps 5 or 6 per cent of their salary, at a time they may already be struggling to make ends meet.
Such a big hit on their wage packets is unlikely to pass unnoticed. Having covered tax and other personal finance issues for a few decades now, I can promise you, that all such matters go entirely unnoticed until they hit wage packets.
The 10p tax row was a case in point. Announced well in advance, without a murmur, it was only when individuals felt the pain in their pocket that they started to scream. On this basis, we should expect opt-outs to be high. Standard Life expects 40 per cent of those currently without a pension to opt-out of these new arrangements. It thinks this is a very good result. I can’t see why.
Another challenge to the pensions industry relates to market volatility. What happens if asset prices remain as volatile this time next year as they are today? Staff who have never invested in risky assets, and can hardly afford to save anyway, are likely to be horrified when they see their hard-earned wages disappearing at the first downturn.
The worst case scenario might be that the European crisis drags on for many months. What if just as auto-enrolment gets underway, the much-predicted halving of share prices actually comes to pass? Who could blame workers badly hit from refusing to ever save in a pension again?
So although the Government has made it clear, that there can be no delay or reprieve even for small businesses under severe pressure. They must introduce auto-enrolment by 2014. But if the economy has still not improved at that stage, it is not inconceivable this decision will have to be revisited.
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By Karl Plume
(Reuters) - Commercial shipping traffic on the Mississippi River north of St. Louis was halted on Tuesday after a vessel collided with a gate at Lock 27 near Granite City, Illinois, the system's busiest lock, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson said.
The accident occurred in the lock's auxiliary chamber, which had been the only operational lock as the main chamber is closed for scheduled repairs until March.
Corps personnel were assessing damages and could not immediately estimate how long the lock would remain out of service.
Nine upriver vessels and five downriver vessels were waiting to pass through the lock as of 12:45 p.m. CST, according to the Corps' Lock Performance Monitoring System website.
Although vessel traffic on what is known as the mid-Mississippi River was seasonally slow, the lock closure was the latest logistics headache for shippers that rely on the inland waterways system to haul billions of dollars of grain, coal, fertilizer and other commodities.
Low water along a busy stretch between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois, has been threatening to disrupt traffic on the drought-drained river since December.
Dredging operations have slowed traffic at various points of the river for months.
A six-mile stretch at Thebes, Illinois, has been closed for 16 hours a day since December as the Army Corps works to remove river-bottom rock pinnacles that pose a threat to boats during low water conditions.
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Meanwhile, inside the bubble of State power, life goes on unperturbed and uninstructed by the lessons of the Kublalsingh experience.
On Friday, dismissing the pleas for consultation, consideration and review by the national community of film makers, the government dropped the sledgehammer on the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company (TTFC) in a legal manoeuvre designed to open the way for the Trinidad and Tobago Creative Industries Company (TTCIC) with implications far beyond the film sector.
Bear in mind that this is the same government which, just two and a half years ago, pledged itself to "The proper resourcing of the Trinidad & Tobago Film Company and the T&T Entertainment Company" as a pillar in the development of the Arts. (People's Partnership Manifesto, Page 46)
Inside the TTFC boardroom on Friday, it must have felt like suicide. Six unanswered letters to the Minister of Trade, a mamaguy meeting between the minister and aggrieved film producers, and, finally, on November 30, a terse instruction from its shareholder, the Ministry of Finance, left the TTFC no choice. The board surrendered and signed on the dotted line, approving a resolution for the TTFC's name to be changed to TTCIC, thereby facilitating the transition into the unknowable world of political expediency.
It must've been a bitter pill for TTFC chairman Christopher Laird, a patriot and champion of the local film and television industry.
Like Wayne Kublalsingh, he, too, could never have imagined the ease of the political lie when he agreed to take the reins of the TTFC in an act of national service.
Like the residents along the Mon Desir to Debe route, film producers feel angry and betrayed and are spending the weekend preparing to put up the fight of their lives. But they are small in number and tiny of muscle and unlikely to go far unless the rest of us understand that their issue is no more about films than the re-route protest was about a highway.
What is at stake is the relationship between power and people in a democracy and the elements of governance: the accountability of government to citizens, the participation of people in the decisions that affect their lives and their country; and the transparency of government actions.
After Reshmi Ramnarine, the State of Emergency, Section 34 et al, we can add to the list the issue of trust.
In the absence of a fully articulated and coherent draft policy and strategy for the development of the cultural sector, why should any one of us trust an initiative that gives a lie to a manifesto pledge, runs counter to stakeholder opinion and is being foisted on the country with an absence of detail?
For background on this issue,you can listen to an online audio clip of the Minister of Trade outlining his case for the yet-to-be-established TTCIC to the Chamber of Commerce and identifying his board appointees as Derek Chin, Meiling, Donna Chin Lee, Calvin French (among others to be named). (http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/04/trinidad-tobago-what-direction-for-creative-industries/)
But be warned: Take a deep breath lest your blood boil at the sheer naivete and ignorance in the development approach for the creative sector.
Which brings us to the plan to appoint businessman Derek Chin as chairman of this proposed new State enterprise. A more obvious conflict of interest could not be imagined.
Mr Chin has been confidently promoting his $2 billion "Streets of the World" Carnival/culture project which would extend eastward from his Movietowne complex on Invaders Bay. The promotion is intense—which is surprising given that he doesn't yet own the 27 acres of State lands involved and that initial legal action hangs over the process by which the government accepted his bid to develop Invaders Bay. (For more on this, see http://www.jcc.org.tt/invadersbay.htm)
As with the T&T Film Company, the government has given the greenlight to Mr Chin's project, notwithstanding the questions and concerns raised by stakeholders. Among objectors are the construction industry's Joint Consultative Council (JCC), T&T Chamber of Commerce, T&T Manufacturers' Association and T&T Transparency Institute.
Completely unfazed, the government blithely hurtles along, rushing to meet some curious January 1 deadline.
As land use, Derek Chin's project raises questions about the value and terms of exchange of public assets, the development model for Invaders Bay, the interest of the City of Port of Spain and, possibly, the public's right to free access of the shoreline up to high tide.
When considered alongside the government's proposal to appoint Mr Chin to chair the proposed State-owned T&T Creative Industries Company, the questions become more explosive.
With one foot in a private business designed to exploit the national culture for private gain, and another foot in the State agency responsible for managing the public investment in the creative sector, the risk of the public facilitating the private, at its own expense, becomes dangerously high.
In any case, Mr Chin's suitability for the job of chairman of the TTCIC should be called into question. As private enterprise, one is free to take or leave his vision of building an "Epcot Centre" on Invaders Bay, with streets reflecting the cultures of India, Africa, Syria and China, and the culture of Carnival, replete with mas and pan, wax museum et al. (See http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Chin_s__2b_vision_for_Invaders_Bay-164972616.html). But for the government to elevate the proponent of this vision to the level of guiding force in developing the cultural and creative sector reeks of suspect convenience.
It goes without saying that we need a greater strategic thrust in developing and monetising creative potential. Indeed, there is a case for rationalising the various ad hoc investments taken by successive administrations in the creative sector. But in doing so, the government cannot escape the responsibility for fully engaging the public.
Sadly, having squandered the political space for dialogue and negotiation, it now has no choice but to railroad public opinion and muscle its way forward in trying to stimulate the economy, create jobs and, where required, appease financiers. New politics be damned.
In calculating the political price of dismantling the T&T Film Company, the government may have dismissed the small community of film producers as another vocal minority standing in the way of progress and development. After Kublalsingh, though, it should be more careful.
Like the people of Mon Desir-Debe, our film producers, too, feel the impotence of belonging to a discounted democracy.
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A ban on smoking in public places, such as bus stops, playgrounds and picnic pavilions, might go into effect as soon as Dec. 5.
The City Council is scheduled to adopt the ordinance Nov. 20. The law then would be effective 10 days after advertised in The Durango Herald on Nov. 25.
Smokers could be fined $100 for a first offense and $200 to $300 for consecutive fines in the same calendar year. Proceeds would go to anti-tobacco and smoking-cessation efforts.
When it goes into effect, the ban still could come as a surprise to smokers because City Manager Ron LeBlanc said at a recent meeting that he is not sure when signs for the ban would be posted in public areas.
City Councilor Sweetie Marbury had asked about the signs so she can approach smokers who are lighting up in public places such as the Animas River Trail.
Mayor Doug Lyon said he thought approaching smokers about the ban was a “little intrusive” but Marbury was free to do what she wanted.
The mayor originally opposed the inclusion of the river trail because he doubted whether smokers in remote spots would bother people on the trail.
But Lyon agreed to the river trail for the sake of promoting health. He said the law’s intent really is about setting a good example as opposed to eliminating the danger of secondhand smoke.
Lyon said if the city wanted to go after every public menace, there would be “seat belts” on chairs.
The proposed ban applies to city-owned or operated property with exceptions for Hillcrest Golf Course and outdoor religious ceremonies performed by Native Americans.
Sidewalks are not included in the city ban, but the state’s Clean Indoor Air Act already prohibits smoking within 15 feet of a business entrance, City Attorney David Smith said.
The proposal originally extended the ban to the patios of bars and restaurants, but that section was removed after protests by smokers and business owners.
San Juan Basin Health Department and other health groups have urged the council to adopt the ban.
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Family Care International
Making pregnancy and childbirth safer around the world
"Family Care International (FCI) was founded in 1987 as the first international organization dedicated to improving maternal health in developing countries. It has been working since then — collaboratively, innovatively, and effectively — to pursue a world where no woman suffers preventable injury or death from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes and where all people are able to enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
On the global stage FCI works alongside UNFPA and other partners to promote political commitment, stronger policies, and more funding for programs that save wom
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Alpha & Omega Ministries Apologetics Blog
21st Century Errors about Prayer's Efficacy
08/31/2008 - Tur8infanOn the same Catholic Answers Live episode (May 8, 2008), in which Steve Ray seemingly endorsed 18th Century superstitions (see my previous discussion), Mr. Ray discussed another Rosary-related topic.
A caller (Willie in Fredericksburg, TX) asked:
I tell somebody I'm going to say a rosary for them, and then I do, and in the process I might have told somebody else, and so I end up with two, three, four people - I'm just wondering, is that diluting it some way? Or is better to say individual - well its probably better - but is it diluting it some by combining several people?
Steve Ray responded:
I think that's a good question, but I don't think you have any fear of that, because if you are praying the rosary with sincere intent to pray it for several people instead of just one, the weakness would not be with you, but the weakness would be with God. And God isn't weak. He can make sure that that prayer that you pray is responded to for each of those individuals, because God is perfectly capable of hearing your prayer and reaching out his wonderful fingers to touch 4, 5, 6, or 10 people just as well as one. And as long as its your intent to pray for them, and you say, "Lord, this person has a real need here, and this person there, and this person there, and this person there, and I only have a half an hour to pray Lord, but I really really want you to help every one of those people I'm going to pray for, so when I pray, would you please make up for any of my weakness of mind, and my weakness of memory, and you take care of them for me." I guarantee by my little experience with God, and by knowing who He is and what He wants to do. He actually wants to help those people more than you want Him to help those people. So I think you add as many people as you want, and you pray for them, and then you watch God work in their life.
Let's assume for a second that Steve Ray actually understands Catholicism, and further let's assume that his statements are accurate. After all, he was introduced in the show as "one of the leading proponents of the faith" and he himself stated "if I don't know something, I'm going to be honest and right up front and let you know that."
If Steve Ray is right, isn't it somewhat limited to pray as Steve proposes? Wouldn't the following be a still more generous prayer?
Lord, I only have one half hour to pray, but I really really want you to help every one of the people on Earth who has a need, and each person in Purgatory who is suffering the temporal punishment of their sins. So, when I pray, would you please make up for my finite mind and my finite knowledge of all their particular problems, and their particular names, and take care of them for me.
In fact, if God would like to help all those people, wouldn't God being willing to accept an omnibus request of that sort? I hope that most readers sense intuitively that a rosary prefaced in such a manner would not be used by God for billions of times more good than the same rosary prefaced by "So that Joe, my neighbor, will get a job."
What's wrong with Steve's answer is that he doesn't see the problem in the man's question. Prayers, including collections of prayers, like the rosary, do not have merit. I've seen this problem in other contexts, normally in the context or people talking about requesting the prayers of "Saints."
This problem usually becomes visible to us, Reformed folks, when we see Catholicism interacting with this verse:
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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Steve Ray Relying on 18th Century Catholic Superstitions
08/29/2008 - Tur8infanOn the May 8, 2008, edition of Catholic Answers Live, I was amazed to hear Steve Ray reference (seemingly approvingly) a book called, "The Secret of the Rosary," for the idea that wearing a rosary "around your neck keeps the Devil away - it keeps the evil powers away, because they hate the rosary and they hate the crucifix ... ." I can safely say that wearing a rosary has about equal efficacy in keeping demons away as does wearing a scapular or dousing oneself in "holy water." In short, it has no power at all.
Meanwhile, enjoy the ecumenical flavor of that most lovely work:
The heretics, all of whom are children of the devil and clearly bear the sign of God's reprobation, have a horror of the Hail Mary. They still say the Our Father but never the Hail Mary; they would rather wear a poisonous snake around their necks than wear a scapular or carry a rosary.
And truly, I would rather (as Louis de Montfort claims) have a king cobra round my neck than participate in the superstitious and anti-Christian tradition of the rosary or the scapula. I think the portion Steve Ray was referring to was this:
Blessed Alan relates that a man he knew had tried desperately all kinds of devotions to rid himself of the evil spirit which possessed him, but without success. Finally, he thought of wearing his rosary round his neck, which eased him considerably. He discovered that whenever he took it off the devil tormented him cruelly, so he resolved to wear it night and day. This drove the evil spirit away forever because he could not bear such a terrible chain. Blessed Alan also testifies that he delivered a great number of those who were possessed by putting a rosary around their necks.
This may be from an eighteenth century book, but make no mistake, these superstitious beliefs are alive today, as evidenced by Mr. Ray's comment.
If You Missed This Beggars All Post, Take the Time to Read It
08/27/2008 - James White
This is an excellent post from James Swan (hey, why didn't he post it here?)! It has always amazed me to watch Roman Catholic apologists citing this patristic source or that, and when you actually take the time to read the arguments put forward, you are left shaking your head and saying, "THAT is supposed to be a compelling argument?"
MP3 Dividing Line Review: The Jimmy Akin Bible Answer Man Debate, Circa 1995
08/07/2008 - James SwanLast year, Catholic Answers started offering a two debate set for purchase. In actuality, neither product was an actual debate. Rather, they were discussions on two different radio shows. The first was Tim Staples discussion with Steve Gregg. The second was a 13 year old radio discussion between Dr. White and James Akin on the Bible Answer Man show.
It's been some time since Catholic Answers has agreed to an actual moderated debate with Dr. White. Last year Dr. White addressed why Catholic Answers would so readily make this old discussion with James Akin available, while steering clear of any actual new moderated debates with him. This led him to also critique a large portion of the old BAM discussion with James Akin. He did this over two months on eight different Dividing Line programs (8/2, 8/14, 8/16, 8/21, 8/23, 8/30, 9/11, 9/27). Sometimes he addressed it for ten minutes, other times an hour.
I went through the Dividing Line archives, and extracted all the material addressing the Akin BAM debate, compiling four MP3's, together totalling around four hours.
Dr. White's Review of the Akin BAM Debate (Part Two)
Dr. White's Review of the Akin BAM Debate (Part Three)
Dr. White's Review of the Akin BAM Debate (Part Four)
The content of these four MP3's will be extremely helpful for those of you regularly engaging Catholic apologists or evangelizing Catholics. Dr. White spent a lot of time addressing authority issues, and this is really the heart of the matter. When Catholics make authority claims, it's important to be aware of what they're saying, and what they're consciously not saying, or rather, avoiding. Also addressed are canon issues and justification.
That Catholic Answers continues to call this discussion a debate is humorous and hypocritical. The discussion ran 3 hours. During the second hour, James Akin was given much more time. During the entire broadcast, Dr. White wasn't even given a chance to respond to many of the claims being put forth. It appears Catholic Answers would rather offer a product in which an opponent is not given a fair chance to respond, rather than actually engage in a new moderated debate. I can't read the hearts of those in charge of Catholic Answers, but their tactics in providing "answers" via the materials they promote are highly questionable. Recall what Solomon stated long ago, "The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are his delight" (Proverbs 11:1).
By the way, if you'd like to hear Dr. White's Bible Answer Man discussion with James Akin, you can purchase it on either CD or MP3 here. If you'd like to spend almost double the price Aomin charges, visit Catholic Answers.
The Loving Roman Catholics of the Catholic Answers Forums
08/01/2008 - James WhiteJames Swan informed me that an old thread on the CA Forums got some life today. Someone asked about the video below, which is just the brief closing statement from the Papacy debate in 1998. Phil Porvaznik immediately jumped in with his pre-fab list of refutations---the same ones he would never dare use in public against me, because he knows better. But, he knows he's in "safe waters" and can play the "big fish" role there. Once again, the idea is not "what is the truth of the matter" but "what can I say to keep someone from leaving Rome?" Very different apologetic standards on opposite shores of the Tiber, to be sure.
In any case, this morning a loving, insightful Roman Catholic by the name of Terry O'Brien (terryobrien80 is the screen name) chimed in with, "All you need to do is get the "Bible Answer Man Debate" tape set with James White vs. James Akin to see what a moron White is." Yes, the same BAM discussion we examined a few months ago on the DL. Anyone want to place a wager on whether ol' Terry has ever even listened to that entire program? Probably not. O'Brien was challenged on his attitude, and his response was right along the lines of Art Sippo, "The truth shall set you free. And the truth is that White doesn't know his **** from his elbow I never claimed to be nice. I just keep it real." Ah, all is still sweetness and light in the realm of the CA Forms. I wonder when I'll get my next dozen fund-raising e-mails from Catholic Answers begging me to help them keep their wonderful forums open? It's been a month since the last spate, so, I'm sure they will hit soon.
Christ the Unbreakable Pothook
08/01/2008 - Tur8infan
Steve Ray (a Roman Catholic apologist and pilgrimage tour guide) has again provided an argument for the papacy via his blog (link to Ray's blog). Ray's argument for the paaccomes in the form of a reply to an objection based on the peg in Isaiah. Apparently, this was the “only issue” about Roman Catholicism that “unsettled … scripturally” one of the readers of Ray’s blog (according to the article Ray links to) and additionally it was a question raised by a caller to a radio show where Ray appeared.
If either that reader or that listener happens to find this blog, I’d suggest to him that this is a minor objection. There are many more serious issues with Catholicism that should leave him feeling unsettled scripturally: Rome's views of justification, purgatory, indulgences, papal infallibility, transubstantiation, worship by use of images, veneration of relics, and many more come immediately to mind. In fact, the peg in Isaiah would be so far down the list of possible issues with Rome that I doubt I have ever raised this particular objection, though Ray claims that “I know because I used to propose this as well.”
In the discussion that follows, I will explain the context of the objection (typical misuse of Isaiah 22) and explain some better objections both grammatical (the pluralization of "keys" demonstrates that a different figure of speech is being used) and exegetical (Eliakim in Isaiah 22 points to Christ, as confirmed by Scripture). Additionally, I will explain the objection (since many readers may never have heard of it) and address both legitimate and illegitimate rebuttals to the objection. By the conclusion, the reader will have seen that although the objection posed is not a particularly strong one, and not one that we should favor, an exegetical understanding as to why such an objection is improper confirms that the position Ray advocates in essence attributes to his church what is properly ascribed only to Christ, for the government is on Christ's shoulder. It is Christ upon whom, like an unbreakable pothook, we can safely hang all our hopes. It is by faith alone in Him alone, that we are saved....
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I don't know how much and deep actually school kids in Germany get in touch with Latin. For some areas of studies it seem to be a prerequisite.
In US literature, also scientific, it has -to my opinion- a kind of elitist touch. I don't see Latin phrases quite often here despite a simple per se or use of acronyms like e.g. or i.d.. Of course worst case would be a reader not noticing that it is Latin at all and supposing a spelling or formatting mistake.
Is there a similar list of known (and safe to use) Latin phrases to use in German academic circles and publishing?
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About Stitch Red
Stitch Red is a national heart disease awareness campaign supported by the Needlearts industry. The campaign is driving efforts to draw attention to heart disease, the #1 killer of women in the United States, help people understand their risk factors for the disease and encourage the adoption of healthier lifestyles to protect their heart health.
A majority of manufacturers and designers throughout the industry are creating and selling Stitch Red products to benefit the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) in support of The Heart Truth®. Local yarn stores across the country are supporting the campaign by carrying these products and hosting Stitch Red events to raise awareness about heart disease.
Additionally, a new book called Knit Red that is authored by Jimmy Beans Wool Owner Laura Zander, is drawing further awareness about the importance of heart health. Featuring 30 eye-catching, red, heart health-inspired garments, accessories and their patterns, as well as personal stories about heart disease from industry greats, Knit Red also provides tips, resources and recipes for heart-healthy living supplied by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and NHLBI's campaign--The Heart Truth®.
About The Founders
Doug and Laura Zander, co-owners of Jimmy Beans Wool, founded this high-profile campaign in hopes of reaching the 98% of women who make up the Needlearts industry with the message of the importance of heart health. They wanted to inform women of the dangers of heart disease, encourage them to lower their risk factors for the illness and help them stay heart healthy. They were able to make this possible by partnering with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's The Heart Truth® to launch Stitch Red.
Stitch Red was originally a collaboration between Laura and her friend and marketing mentor Marta McGinnis. At one friendly coffee meeting, Marta shared that she had recently survived a major heart attack. Laura has also been touched by heart disease, as her young and fit husband Doug had recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure. Through these experiences, both women were shocked to learn that heart disease is the #1 killer of women in the United States.
Sadly, Marta passed away in 2008 before Stitch Red ever got off the ground. She will forever be a driving inspiration for the campaign! | <urn:uuid:153cc236-f790-4ae3-9f8a-cce395921485> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stitchred.com/aboutUs.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96038 | 487 | 1.640625 | 2 |
My grandfather passed today and I am posting this in memory of him.
Too proud to die, broken and blind he died
The darkest way, and did not turn away,
A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride
On that darkest day. Oh, forever may
He lie lightly, at last, on the last, crossed
Hill, under the grass, in love, and there grow
Young among the long flocks, and never lie lost
Or still all the numberless days of his death, though
Above all he longed for his mother's breast
Which was rest and dust, and in the kind ground
The darkest justice of death, blind and unblessed.
Let him find no rest but be fathered and found,
I prayed in the crouching room, by his blind bed,
In the muted house, one minute before
Noon, and night, and light. The rivers of the dead
Veined his poor hand I held, and I saw
Through his unseeing eyes to the roots of the sea.
(An old tormented man three quarters blind,
I am not to proud to cry that He and he
Will never never go out of my mind.
All his bones crying, and poor in all but pain,
Being innocent, he dreaded that he died
Hating his God, but what he was was plain;
An old kind man brave in his burning pride.
The sticks of the house were his; his books he owned.
Even as a baby he had never cried;
Nor did he now, save to his secret wound.
Out of his eyes I saw the last light glide.
Here among the light of the lording sky
An old blind man is with me where I go
Walking in the meadows of his son's eye
On whom a world of ills came down like snow.
He cried as he died, fearing at last the spheres'
Last sound, the world going out without a breath:
Too proud to cry, too frail to check the tears,
And caught between two nights, blindness and death.
O deepest wound of all that he should die
On that darkest day. Oh, he could hide
The tears out of his eyes, too proud to cry.
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Foreign nationals can gain status based on investments which allow such persons the ability to enter the United States and manage their active investment with the right to work while here. Foreign nationals (or entities that they control) can set up a qualifying organization in the United States and then be transferred here in L-1 status. This an “Intracompany Transferee.”
Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries with which the United States has certain types of treaties can apply for status as a “treaty trader” or “treaty investor,” E-1 and E-2 classifications respectively. E-1 or E-2 status allows foreign nationals to work in the United States and manage the trade or their investment.
Foreign nationals who are offered temporary specialty occupation employment for positions which require at minimum a bachelor’s degree can obtain employment authorization for that employer through the H-1B program.
Nonagricultural workers can also work in the United States for a much shorter period in H-2B status, after the offering employer demonstrates a shortage of United States workers to fill the position.
Foreign nationals of extraordinary ability in various fields also can obtain status to work for a United States employer in O-1 status.
Academic students (F-1) or vocational students (M-1) after acceptance by a school authorized to accept foreign national students, can study at various colleges and universities in the United States. Exchange visitors can also study here in J-1 status. J-1 programs are diverse covering graduate medical education, university study, and air flight training, in addition to many other exchange programs.
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Coughlin to Receive Honorary Degree at Oswego Commencement
Joseph Coughlin '82, who is internationally known for his work in gerontology, business innovation and public policy, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from the State University of New York on May 12 at Oswego's 151st Commencement.
He will address both the 9 a.m. ceremony for graduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Communication, Media and the Arts and the 1:30 p.m. ceremony for graduates in the School of Business and School of Education.
Coughlin is the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. At MIT he is a senior lecturer for the School of Engineering's Engineering Systems Division and MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning where he teaches policy and systems innovation.
"We are proud and happy that SUNY has chosen to honor one of our own graduates, Dr. Joseph Coughlin," said President Deborah F. Stanley. "Dr. Coughlin has contributed greatly to our understanding of the needs of an aging population and made great strides in meeting those needs through public policy and technological advances. In his dedication to making life better for an aging American population, Dr. Coughlin carries on Oswego's legacy of efforts to effect positive change in the world."
After receiving his bachelor's degree in political science from SUNY Oswego, Coughlin went on to earn his master's degree from Brown University and a doctorate from Boston University.
He formed MIT's AgeLab in 2000, engaging companies around the world to embrace technology and innovations to serve the needs of an aging population.
The AgeLab has generated a computer aid to help older shoppers choose foods based on their medical history; developed devices in shoes to help with balance; adapted a touch-screen technology to assist with daily tasks; created "pill pets," electronic virtual pets that will prompt users to take their medications; adapted spacesuit technology to assist joints in lifting and climbing; and designed "Miss Daisy," a Volkswagen Beetle, a driving simulator to measure driving skills of senior citizens.
AgeLab's AGNES, or Age Gain Now Empathy System, is a suit that simulates the effects of aging on the body, helping others to physically experience the changes that old people must cope with and inspiring more understanding and empathy. His recent work includes novel approaches to engaging people in planning and financing their retirement years.
Within MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics Coughlin also leads the New England University Transportation Center, a U.S. Department of Transportation-sponsored education, research and technology transfer program that funds an MIT-led consortium of schools that includes Harvard University and several of New England state universities.
A Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Coughlin is co-editor of the book Aging America and Transportation: Personal Choices and Public Policy, published in January by Springer Publishing. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of the "12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement" and one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative in Business. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post science and technology sections and Bank Investment Consultant, and produces the online publication Disruptive Demographics.
Coughlin was appointed by President Bush to serve on the White House Conference on Aging Advisory Committee and has advised many companies worldwide including Daimler, British Telecom, Fidelity Investments and others.
Prior to joining MIT, Coughlin worked for EG&G, a Fortune 1000 science and technology company, where he led the transportation technical services practice serving the Federal government including the US Departments of Defense, Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is married to Emily Coughlin, a 1984 graduate of Brown University, a leading civil litigation attorney in Massachusetts. They have two daughters, Mary and Catherine, and live in suburban Boston.
At SUNY Oswego, the Oswego Alumni Association honored him with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2003, and his work was featured in the fall/winter 2002 Oswego alumni magazine. He has been the keynote speaker at Quest, the college's annual symposium of scholarly and creative activity.
⎯ Michele Reed
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The State Department recently released its portion of the annual report to Congress on arms exports for FY99, as required by Section 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act (commonly known as the 655 Report). The report covers licenses approved for arms exports under the State Department’s Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) program. The Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) report on weapons deliveries was sent to Congress in a separate document this summer.
The total amount of defense articles licensed for export by the State Department in FY99 was $18.5 billion, and the total licenses for manufacturing and technical assistance agreements was 28.4 billion, for a total of $46.9 billion. This is in addition to the Pentagon’s previously released figure of $16.4 billion in weapons deliveries under their Foreign Military Sales program. It is important to note that the State Department only report on licenses for exports, rather than actual contracts or weapons deliveries (unlike the Pentagon, which reports on deliveries). These licenses are good for four years, meaning that the exact weapons systems or defense services listed in this report were not necessarily exported in FY99. Licenses allow companies to proceed with a sale, but many deals fall through or are signed for a lower amount. There is also an element of double counting between the defense articles and the manufacturing licensing agreements, as many licensing agreements include spare parts or other articles for which the exporting company needs to seek an additional, overlapping license. All in all, the actual amount of arms and services delivered is less than half of what is licensed in a given year. It is not possible to know the exact quantity, however. There will be more light shed on actual exports in the future, as the Security Assistance Act of 2000 passed in the fall of 2000 required that future 655 reports include actual deliveries of articles and services approved under the DCS program. Yet even if the actual amount delivered is only a quarter to a half of $46.9 billion, this still represents an enormous quantity of defense articles and services considering the Congressional Research Service reported a worldwide total of $34 billion worth of weapons deliveries in 1999. (The CRS uses a conservative estimate of DCS deliveries based on an incomplete tally of shippers' declarations passed to State somewhat unreliably from the Customs Service.)
This year’s 655 report shows an alarming increase of $20 billion from past years' total licenses, which had been averaging about $25 billion a year. Some of the increase is due to a rising proportion of licenses for manufacturing or technical assistance agreements, which are generally worth much more than the spare parts and small arms that compose most of the licenses for defense articles. The State Department describes the boom in defense services as a reflection of the “growing complexity of commercial defense trade” where international joint ventures and overseas production are an increasingly common part of arms sales agreements. But by approving such licenses to over 70 countries – from Algeria to Rwanda and Russia – the State Department is actively endorsing these types of arrangements and is therefore helping to proliferate weapons production capacity. Instead of exporting weapons systems made in the U.S., U.S. companies are increasingly exporting to foreign firms the technology and authorization needed to produce U.S. weapons - from ammunition to missiles - on their own.
The State Department has recognized that, at the very least, licensed production for high-tech weapons systems might require closer Congressional scrutiny under Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act. State therefore ordered an audit of companies’ manufacturing agreements to make sure the amounts in the final contract did not fall over the threshold for Congressional notification. To their surprise, State’s audit turned up billions of dollars worth of underreported agreements. The 655 report states, “The results of such audits frequently disclose higher values than previously reported or initially projected by U.S. defense firms owing to a variety of factors, including extensions in the validity of agreements well beyond the original time frame envisaged.” Just one company (presumably Boeing based on the equipment referred to) undercounted by $10.3 billion! Nowhere in the report is a sense of concern that these companies were seriously violating their State Department licenses, which are for a limited amount of time and money. The Office Defense Trade Controls at State told the ASMP that the companies will probably be fined for their violations of the law. But this type of slap on the wrist is not likely to deter companies from misbehaving in the future and is certainly not equal to the crime of underreporting billions of dollars of defense contracts.
The 655 report shows a disturbingly large range of recipient states authorized to receive everything from ammunition raw materials to AMRAAM spare parts. The State Department claims that authorizations “continue to center on a relatively small number of friends and allies of the United States,” mostly to Japan and the United Kingdom. Yet the report shows 129 countries received licenses for defense articles, and a subset of 71 states received licenses for manufacturing or technical assistance agreements. When combined with the number of states identified as receiving FMS shipments in FY99, the number goes up to 152 (out of a total of 191 independent countries in the world, or 80% of the market covered!). In fact, the report – which provides only general information on weapons transferred or agreements reached – actually raises more questions than it answers. For instance, in a time when Secretary Albright has been pledging not to transfer arms to regions of conflict, why did State approve a license for $24 million of manufacturing or technical assistance agreements to Rwanda? So that they could produce their own armaments in this extremely troubled part of Africa? And why did State approve over $1 million worth of small arms and spare parts to Zimbabwe, which is involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has its own internal crisis brewing. Even Angola and Congo (the report didn’t specify Kinshasa or Brazzaville) received licenses for small amounts of weapons. Algeria, still in the midst of a particularly brutal civil conflict, received licenses for both $288 million worth of defense articles and another $280 million worth of manufacturing or technical assistance agreements.
The State Department report also shows a disturbingly high rate of licenses for the export of small arms and light weapons, despite the Department’s commitment to reducing illicit trafficking of this type of weaponry. For example, small arms, ammunition, and ammunition manufacturing materials were licensed for export to all but two countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cuba and Suriname), a region where high crime rates, drug trafficking, and political instability would seem to call for particular restraint. It is hard to imagine the foreign policy goal that could lead to blanket approval of small arms in the region, leading one to believe the main rationale is to keep markets open in all of these states. State has also apparently reversed a policy articulated in 1997 not to sell crowd control devices such as small arms to Turkey, which still engages in serious human rights abuses. Over $10 million worth of assault rifles, pistols, small arms cartridges, and ammunition raw materials were licensed for export to Turkey in FY99, according to the report.
Again, until more information is provided in the 655 report, it will be difficult to make an accurate analysis of the risks involved in the transfers. What’s really needed is information not just on licenses provided, but the amount on the actual contracts negotiated with the U.S. company and the foreign entity (which, by the way, can be either a government or private buyer). We also need to shed light on the enormous amounts of manufacturing and technical assistance agreements that are now lumped together in one category with no additional information provided. Listing details of these agreements might also help prevent double-counting between defense articles approved as part of those agreements and listed for a second time under defense article licenses. In short, the U.S. government certainly leads the world in openness on arms sales, but it still has a ways to go before it can be called completely transparent.
The 655 Report for FY99 was actually due last February, but was only transmitted to Congress in October. The Arms Sales Monitoring Project at FAS obtained a copy in early December, but we noticed a major error in the total figures for defense articles: there was a $7 billion difference between the total figure cited in the introduction to the report and the grand total in the report itself. The smaller number turned out to be correct, and State had to reissue the report with the correct numbers. The overcounting seemed to be due to a failure to separate out all the manufacturing and technical assistance agreements items from Part I, which was supposed to be limited to defense articles. In addition to taking out any actual manufacturing or technical agreements that were mistakenly included, the State Department also took out or greatly reduced various spare parts, components, or support equipment, presumably that were part of manufacturing licensing agreements. | <urn:uuid:6edfda0c-4f90-4c03-81f9-738a9a474b1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/655-99/dcs/655analysisfy99.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962881 | 1,810 | 1.796875 | 2 |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Legislation allowing state education officials to intervene more quickly in failing schools has cleared the Missouri Senate with no opposition.
A bill passed Thursday by the Senate would let the state act immediately when a district loses accreditation, instead of waiting for more than two years as required by current law.
The legislation would apply to any unaccredited district. But it's prompted primarily by the Kansas City School District, which lost accreditation in January 2012 but is not subject to state intervention until June 30, 2014.
Under the bill, the state Board of Education could prescribe conditions under which the local school board could continue to oversee an unaccredited district. Or it could set up a special administrative board. | <urn:uuid:ffd3ec92-8e98-44ee-a828-f07f5bf8b59e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.waynesvilledailyguide.com/article/20130207/NEWS/130209085/1001 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971254 | 150 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Court protest turns into anti-GMO rally
What started out as a protest advertised as standing up for the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGTA) in its court case against Monsanto turned into an anti-biotechnology rally Jan. 10, in Washington, D.C.
Members of Food Democracy Now! and other activists gathered in front of the White House in Lafayette Square, directly after attorneys for the OSGTA presented their appeals court arguments about a district court dismissal of a case against Monsanto. The claimants filed suit against Monsanto originally because they wanted Monsanto to be prevented from ever taking legal action against organic seed producers if genetically modified plant traits crossed over into organic fields. The case was originally dismissed because the whole claim was based on speculation rather than any action ever taken by Monsanto. Results of the appeal will be announced in the near future.
After attending the oral argument to appeal the dismissal of the case at the U.S. Court of Appeals, the group, that might have totaled 300 persons, marched to Lafayette Park to protest the “Obama administration’s pending approval of 13 new biotech crops and AquaBounty’s ‘Frankenfish,’ a genetically engineered ‘salmon,’” according to Food Democracy Now!, which is against GMOs.
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WASHINGTON—Forty years ago, all of America learned the name of a particular condominium, hotel and office complex along the Potomac in the nation's capital.
"Watergate" has been irrevocably tattooed on the national psyche, the story so familiar that only the very young need a primer. For most, the very name Watergate is synonymous with government corruption and the uniquely odd and criminally paranoid 37th president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon.
To members of a certain generation, it is a where-were-you-when question. Where were you during the Watergate hearings? For those over 50 or so, the answer likely is "glued to the television." The Watergate hearings were great TV not only because of the content of the investigation but also because of the characters. Two consistently spring to mind—Sam Ervin, the colorful North Carolina senator who oversaw the Senate hearings. And Maureen Dean, the gorgeous blond wife of then White House counsel (and now ubiquitous) John Dean. Many will confess that the ethereal Mo, who wore her platinum hair pulled back into a tight bun and sat like a sparkling hallucination in a battlefield of wounded men, was as mesmerizing as the testimony.
This past week has been filled with reunions of various remaining characters, including Dean (but, alas, not Mo), and not least, of course, the forever famous "Woodward and Bernstein," (Bob and Carl), the two Washington Post reporters who brought the story to light and whose names have themselves become institutionalized, thanks in part to the movie based on their book, "All the President's Men."
Much debate has centered on the meaning of Watergate. For their part, Woodward and Bernstein, sharing a byline for the first time in more than three decades, recently wrote in The Washington Post that Watergate really represented five overlapping wars that Nixon was conducting—against the anti-Vietnam movement, the news media, Democrats, the judiciary and history itself.
Nixon was a criminal to be sure, even if he never quite saw it that way. He broke the law, being willing to bribe, burgle, wiretap, lie and extort for political gain. Somewhere along his dark path of consuming paranoia, he lost any flicker of light to help him see that he was lost. Woodward and Bernstein say that our allegiance to the adage that the cover-up is always worse than the crime is misplaced in Nixon's case.
Beyond the obvious, Nixon and the Watergate episode did great, perhaps irreparable, harm to the American spirit. A generation already traumatized by a war that ended up killing 58,000 of its brothers, boyfriends, husbands and fathers lost any remaining innocence, as well as trust in authority and faith in governmental institutions. The flag our forefathers raised on the moral high ground looked suddenly shabby and soiled.
When even the president of the United States was willing to burglarize the American people, there was no one left to trust. Adding insult, the entire episode was a cheap suit, sleazy and banal. Could the greatest nation in human history really be driven to a constitutional crisis by a bungled, third-rate burglary?
Not incidentally, Watergate also created something else of significance—the celebrity journalist and a generation of wannabe Woodwards and Bernsteins. Those of us who found our way to newsrooms all wanted the big story, if not necessarily the movie with attendant fame and fortune. What most realized rather quickly was that journalism was more like laying bricks than leaping tall buildings. Deep Throat was just a disgusting porn flick and The Big Story was more likely a city council debate over tax millage rates.
We couldn't all be Woodwards and Bernsteins, it turned out, but the presumption of corruption and government as the enemy was a pervasive, defining force in newsrooms across the nation. And this force in turn helped shape a relentless cynicism that persists today even as it morphs into something else.
And what is that? Hard to say, but a country without faith or trust in its institutions—from the presidency to Congress to the judiciary and even to the once glorious, swashbuckling, truth-seeking press—is going to have a rough go of things. As seems to be the case. Given the spoils of what took place on June 17, 1972, at the Watergate office building, Nixon was no petty thief. He was a grand larcenist.
Whether we can recover those stolen goods—nothing less than America's promise to itself—is Watergate's true legacy, and it is punctuated with a question mark.
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NEW YORK, NY.-
David Wojnarowiczs A Fire in My Belly is now on view at the New Museum
through January 23, 2011. David Wojnarowicz is a widely respected artist whose first U.S. retrospective was held at the New Museum in 1999. The film, A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress (1986-87) is a poetic meditation on man, life, death, faith, and suffering made in part as a response to the AIDS-related death of his close friend, artist Peter Hujar. In the 13-minute silent film, Wojnarowicz juxtaposes informal black and white footage from the streets of Mexico with staged color images in a rough montage.
After Wojnarowiczs own untimely death from AIDS in 1992, a separate seven-minute version was found in his studio and was subsequently remastered and redited, with a soundtrack by Diamanda Galas. A four-minute excerpt was created from the original 13-minute film for inclusion in the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, at the National Portrait Gallery
in Washington D.C., which opened on October 30, 2010.
One month later, Catholic League president Bill Donohue called the work an act of hate speech against Christians, and began to pressure the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to reconsider funding for the Smithsonian. In response to this uninformed misreading of the work and mounting pressure, the work was removed from the exhibition on November 30, 2010.
The New Museum shares David Wojnarowiczs original work, followed by the seven-minute version, in its Lobby as an act of solidarity with the many artists whose rights of expression continue to be limited by misinformation and fear. The New Museum has always defended freedom of expression and continues to oppose censorship. We cannot afford to take hard won civil liberties for granted and need to remain vigilant and protect artistic freedom, said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director. | <urn:uuid:990d8259-7374-4675-aa33-be6a6e252522> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=43251&int_modo=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960711 | 411 | 1.539063 | 2 |
It wasn't that long ago that it seemed like nothing could overcome "American Idol." But this season the long-in-the-tooth reality competition is getting beat not by any number of upstart copycat karaoke shows but by a sitcom: CBS's "The Big Bang Theory." (See details on the ratings in their common half hour over at TV by the Numbers.) The show's hotter than ever in its fifth season. What gives? Ad Age worked with our editorial partner Bluefin Labs, the Cambridge-Mass.-based social-TV analytics company, to take a look at the social-TV profile for the show.Scroll down below the infographic for some notes and context.
The Show That Beats 'American Idol': Inside the Exploding Popularity of 'The Big Bang Theory'
Bluefin Labs Tracks the Hotter-Than-Ever Sitcom
- According to Bluefin, the average number of social-media comments for the first six episodes of "The Big Bang Theory" in 2012 almost quadrupled in a year-over-year comparison.
- The average number of social-media commenters for "BBT" more than quintupled year-over-year.
- On average, Nielsen ratings numbers for the first six episodes of "BBT" are up 22 % year-over-year.
- It's worth noting that "American Idol" still has a much bigger overall social-TV footprint than "BBT." "Idol" has had an average, so far this season, of about 110,000 social-media comments per episode as tracked by Bluefin Labs, vs. 12,000 for "BBT." Why? For starters, "Idol" typically airs twice a week (Wednesdays and Thursdays) in prime time, with shows ranging from one to two hours. It's also a matter of genre. Mike Guigli, who led the Bluefin data team that crunched the numbers for our analysis: " 'The Big Bang Theory' is a scripted comedy and therefore inherently prompts fewer social-media comments." As we've noted in this space before, reality-competition shows just have a lot more social-TV hooks baked into their formats, including celebrity judges, contestants to support or scorn, triumphs, eliminations, etc.
- So what do "BBT" fans talk about when they're talking about "BBT"? Bluefin did an in-depth topic analysis for the episode that was broadcast Feb. 16. See the breakouts in our chart. It's notable that the most common type of comment about the show is more or less a declaration to the world that , hey, I'm watching this show! (e.g., "When i watch the big bang theory while i do my home work i feel wayyyy smarter lol"). Other comments tend to have to do with quoting funny dialogue and ticking off specific narrative points -- like the "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" game that the Sheldon character introduced ages ago on the show but which got prominent play again in the Feb. 16 episode. Sample comment: "OMG! Kripke messing with Sheldon through 'Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock' = Love. #BigBangTheory."
Stay tuned to AdAge.com for more data from Bluefin Labs. For more about Bluefin, visit their website.
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In a laughable Margaret Wente column (forgiving the redundancy) in the Globe and Mail this week, we were called upon to feel sorry for Carleton University professor Dr. Tim Patterson:
Prof. Patterson never set out to be a global-warming dissenter. "It's my bad luck. I just go where the research takes me."
This may be true in some parallel universe, but Prof. Patterson is famously reticent to let his research take him beyond 1980, when the evidence for his favorite thesis falls to ruins.
Patterson's shtick is to line up sunspot records from the last century in a comparative graph with temperature variations. As Wente says, "He and other scientists have found an excellent correlation between these climate shifts and cyclical changes in the brightness of the sun."
That's absolutely true - until 1980, when all Patterson's own graphs curiously stop. In the years since, however, the graphs diverge sharply . Solar activity goes flat, temperature spikes to record levels. On this divergence, Patterson, who likes to congratulate himself for taking "a longer world view," is devoutly silent.
However, the professor is quick to say: "There are more and more papers about celestial forcing, but you never hear about them in the media."
Well, Tim, we're not quite the Globe and Mail, but we will reprint or link prominently to any research you can produce that demonstrates celestial forcing - and not greenhouse gases - can be blamed for the current round of global warming.
In the meantime, we suggest that you use the consulting fees that you have received from energy-industry groups like the Natural Resources Stewardship Project and Friends of Science to take Peggy Wente to dinner. You can chat on merrily about views of science and social policy that are driven by stubborn ideology rather than, say, evidence. | <urn:uuid:c4badcf5-24f2-41a0-be36-39775eee182b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://desmogblog.com/print/2691 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953134 | 382 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Dana/Thomas House, Springfield, IL
New Photos taken May 10, 2004
If you have an appreciation
for the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, you must see this home.
It embodies everything that Wright loved and believed in during his early
Prairie Style architecture. Built
in 1902, it was one of the best collaborations between client and architect of
any Wright building. The client had
impeccable taste and plenty of money to spend on the home and she gave Wright
almost complete free reign over the design and construction.
Her one stipulation was that one room from the home that her grandfather
had built on the site needed to remain intact within Wrights design.
For that reason, there is a relatively traditional Victorian parlor in
the middle of an otherwise modern (even by todayís standards) home.
(Wright didnít completely accede to Mrs. Danaís wishes.
He lowered the ceiling, raised the floor, changed the lighting and added
art glass to the windows.)
The home is HUGE.
Our tour guide was trying hard to go quickly through the home since she
really wanted to go home for the day. She
obviously loves the home because she couldnít stop herself from slowing down
to show us more detail and tell us all sorts of fascinating historical tidbits
about the home. The tour is
supposed to take 50 minutes. She
hurried us through in just over an hour and a half.
Unfortunately since we were the last group of the day, we didnít get to
snap pictures in the rear courtyard of the home.
That was all closed up by the time we got there.
That didnít stop me from using my long arms to get a few shots of the
back of the house.
I cannot begin to tell you
how beautiful this home is. The
state of Illinois has owned it since the 1970ís and they have done an amazing
job of restoration. It is in almost
PERFECT shape after almost a century of harsh Illinois weather.
According to the guides and the literature, the home has the largest
collection of original Wright furnishings that were designed for the building in
which they reside. I donít doubt that one bit.
Almost everything that the guide pointed out was original and it was all
in AMAZING shape.
I have visited the Dana/Thomas house 4 times now and I canít wait to go back again. This home takes my breath away and brings a tear to my eye.
Though the door is not hidden, like many Wright homes, there is so much to this house, that you could easily look to other places on the home for the front door.
The arch over the door is beautiful. The roman bricks are great, but what really makes the doorway is the butterfly design art glass and the beautifully designed door.
The Bedroom windows are beautiful. The view from inside isn't much to look at now, but in 1902 the prairie came all the way up to Susan Dana's doorstep.
This is the house that inspired my tattoo.
Photographed here at the Hagan house in Pennsylvania.
New photos of the Dana/Thomas house:
In May of 2004 I was travelling through the Springfield, Illinois area on my way to Wright plus. I happened to be going through on a Monday, which is the one day that the Dana house is not open to the public. Fortuantely you can't hide something like the Dana house.
Side of the gallery.
Another view of the gallery windows
The urns that guard the entry to the courtyard and visitor's center (also known as the stable).
This is a good view of the eaves and the plaster work near the roof line. This is one of the guest bedrooms upstairs, and Ms Dana's Mother's room on the first floor.
Wright didn't hide the front door on this one. :)
The first floor windows are to the living room and the second floor windows are to Ms. Dana's bedroom.
Can you imagine what pattern the light makes in Ms. Dana's bedroom?
Another view of the East end of the house.
From across the street
I love the brick and glass work around the front door.
The front door and a sun porch to the East
Looking along the hallway to the gallery. The wall gives good privacy from the street. You can't see in through these windows.
The fence that goes between the yard and the railroad tracks to the West.
The yard is closed on Mondays, but I'm a very tall person. You can see the entry way to the yard on the right, marked by the two urns I showed earlier. Towards the center of the photo is the galler and to the left are the servant's quarters and the kitchen.
This is the outside of the stable. It is now used as a visitor's center. You can see the "barn doors" as well as the doorway to bring hay into the carriage house. I imagine this was later used as a garage.
The view of the stable and Dana house from across the railroad tracks.
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Just a year ago, Hezbollah was sitting pretty. Lebanon’s Party of God had consolidated its influence across the Arab world with a durable set of alliances. Its Axis of Resistance, formed with Iran, Syria and Hamas, had emerged as the most credible and authoritative force in Middle Eastern politics. Its central idea—to mobilize self-reliant communities around a frontal confrontation with Israel—seemed to be setting the region’s agenda.
But the Arab Spring changed the rules of the game that Hezbollah so masterfully played for the last two decades. Today, the party faces perhaps the biggest threats to the legitimacy it has worked so hard to cultivate among cadres, casual supporters and even the political opponents who have come to grudgingly respect the effectiveness of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
The first, and more short-term, challenge comes from Syria, where a tottering Assad regime could severely curtail Hezbollah’s military room for maneuver. The second, more enduring, issue is the Arab political renaissance underway, which could produce movements well positioned to steal Hezbollah’s anti-Israel thunder with a resistance program free from the party’s sectarian, militant baggage.
Hezbollah has a long history of facing adversity and somehow—against all odds—recovering. Its guerilla war forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon in 2000. Then the murder of a popular former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, in 2005 put Hezbollah on the defensive (several party officials have been indicted in connection with the assassination). A popular uprising drove Syrian troops from Lebanon, depriving Hezbollah of its immediate protector. Attacked from many sides, Hezbollah assiduously worked its considerable base and at the same time used every possible means to deter its domestic enemies, from savvy politics to hardball street battles.
It fought Israel to a standstill in 2006, silencing its Arab critics in the process. Two years later, in a short battle, Hezbollah crushed its domestic Lebanese rivals and won a decisive share of the government. By last summer, Hezbollah commanded half the Lebanese parliament and boasted a powerful, reconfigured militia fully supported by Iran and Syria.
Many of Hezbollah’s opponents thought, even hoped, it could be undone by the international court pursuing Hariri’s killers. But the court plodded its way to indictments, exposing itself as inept and possibly corrupt in its reliance on tainted witnesses. Nasrallah, meanwhile, convinced all of his followers and even many of his enemies that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was part of an Israeli and American plot and that Israel was responsible for Hariri’s killing. To insulate itself against any charges, the party toppled the government of Saad Hariri, the slain leader’s son, in January of this year and installed a Hezbollah-friendly prime minister.
So when four Hezbollah officials were indicted in the Hariri murder at the end of June, the announcement barely registered. The Lebanese government is unlikely to pursue the men, and it probably wouldn’t be able to catch them if it tried. In a confident speech after the indictments, Nasrallah warned that no one should expect Lebanon to cooperate with the arrest warrants against Hezbollah. The state would ignore the warrants, he said, and he ordered his followers not to be drawn into violent disputes with the half of the country that loathes Hezbollah. “There will be no civil war in Lebanon,” he said. The court, which has charged Hezbollah with killing Hariri, is an American and Israeli plot, Nasrallah repeated. Case closed, as far as his followers are concerned—and as far as any likelihood of Hezbollah members facing trial.
It turns out that a crumbling dictatorship in Syria is bedeviling Hezbollah far more than the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Nasrallah has publicly embraced his patrons in Damascus at a time when Bashar al-Assad is engaged in a war against much of his own public. Islamists and secular nationalists—who normally sympathize with Hezbollah for its long record of fighting Israel—find themselves in Assad’s crosshairs, with Hezbollah’s full rhetorical support.
It’s not likely that Hezbollah would try to provoke an all-out regional war if Assad were about to fall, as Nicholas Noe recently argued in these spaces. Historically, Hezbollah has shrewdly embarked only on wars that will have the full support of its constituents. Lebanese will support a war against Israel that appears to be a question of national sovereignty or dignity; they would chafe at a war perceived to be engineered in the interest of a foreign regime, whether Syria’s or Iran’s.
It’s unclear whether change in Syria is an existential matter for Hezbollah; it’s quite possible that a successor to Assad might support resistance against Israel. But if Hezbollah continues to ally itself with Assad, rather than Syria’s popular will, it begins to look like a movement that prefers Arab tyrants to the Arab Spring.
This taint on Hezbollah’s hitherto impeccable credentials as an Islamist and national force speaks to the second, and greater, threat to the movement over the long term:
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Light up your path for visitors with stainless steel path lights27th Mar @ 14:08 If you have a long driveway, or run a golf course, hotel, or other business with a path or driveway, path lights will really help your guests when walking or driving in to make sure they know where they’re going.
Stainless steel path lights look sophisticated and simple, whilst performing their primary function of highlighting where the path or driveway meets the lawn or flowerbed.
There are different designs to choose from, to suit your style or establishment. Choose from minimalistic cylindrical stakes, or taller, lantern-style lamps. There are also path lights which sit flush with the ground, meaning that if you have a few different roads or paths that cross, it doesn’t matter if the lights are walked over.
Most path lights are solar powered. This means that not only will they come on automatically as soon as it gets dark, but they take minimum maintenance and care, and also help the environment.
Solar path lights have solar panels on them or around them. These panels take in energy from the sun’s rays during the day and convert it into stored energy in a self-contained battery. This stored energy is then transferred to light as it gets dark. And – because they are LEDs – there is practically no heat emission, meaning over 90% of the energy used is for its intended purpose.
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As we draw nearer to 2013 Town Meeting on May 6, Andover officials have developed their fiscal year 2014 budgets and are presenting them in a variety of forums for residents to become familiar with the information. The League of Women Voters of Andover/North Andover urges people to take time to review the town and school budgets and learn as much as possible before Town Meeting.
The Town Manager’s Budget and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) are available on the homepage of the town’s websiteandoverma.gov under “What’s New,” and budget issues will be discussed at the Monday and Wednesday Joint Meetings of the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee. Their meeting schedule is available at andoverma.gov/meetings/. The Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee and School Committee will meet together on March 20.
The School Committee has presented its budget, and it is now available for review on the school website:aps1.net/index.aspx?NID=411. The School Committee is also hosting a public hearing at which residents will be able to ask questions about the 2014 school budget. That meeting will be Thursday, March 21 at 7: p.m. in the School Committee room (in the school administration offices at 36 Bartlet St, at the rear of the building).
On April 3, the League will host a budget forum featuring presentations by both school and town officials that will elaborate on their FY2014 budgets. The budget forum, moderated by League-member Bonnie Zahorik, will begin at 7 p.mm in the Memorial Hall Library. This is an interactive forum with a question-and-answer period will allow attendees to further explore budget issues with officials in a small setting.
If you are unable to attend the League’s Budget Forum, it will broadcast live and will be taped for rebroadcast and posted online at andovertv.org. Questions will be accepted in advance of the forum, as well as during the event, at [email protected].
Andover residents are privileged to live in a town that maintains a Town Meeting form of government. The League reminds people that democracy is not a spectator sport. We encourage all voters to take time to become informed before Town Meeting and to vote on election day, March 26.
Ann Cobleigh, LWV President
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Google have decided to open source the Jaiku Engine and release it under the Apache license on Google Code. The actual Jaiku service won’t close, but neither is Google supporting it. Instead, the service will live on thanks to volunteers. Or, in the words of Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering:
As we mentioned last April, we are in the process of porting Jaiku over to Google App Engine. After the migration is complete, we will release the new open source Jaiku Engine project on Google Code under the Apache License. While Google will no longer actively develop the Jaiku codebase, the service itself will live on thanks to a dedicated and passionate volunteer team of Googlers.
Jaiku’s Jyri stresses that this isn’t necessarily the end of Jaiku, and that doom-mongerers should wait and see what’ll happen with the site. This in a comment to the announcement on the Jaikido Blog:
While the future is uncertain (it always is), it’s also worth noting that the Jaiku that exists today was developed by independent people who were brought together by an interest to create a cool tool for sharing presence and conversation.
The next couple of months will be crucial for Jaiku. The service never really evolved after Google acquired it back in 2007, and went from being an advanced version of Twitter, with support for both feeds and longer comments, to a stale alternative that people abandoned. In some countries, like Sweden for instance, Jaiku is perhaps more wide-spread than Twitter. Unless these volunteers can show commitment and resolution for Jaiku, I’d say the service will burn out and die.
Open sourcing the Jaiku engine is a great thing, however, and I believe that while Google did in fact plan a serious consumer alternative to Twitter, this is better business for the company. The idea is that you’ll be able to have your own microblogging engine inside your Google App, which smells like more enterprise money to me. This was believed to have happened a long time ago, so it’s about time. | <urn:uuid:c42e1280-d529-44ef-b847-a8223783177a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.blogherald.com/2009/01/15/jaiku-goes-open-source-the-beginning-of-the-end/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948119 | 438 | 1.578125 | 2 |
RAWALPINDI, Aug 16: The presence of dengue mosquitoes in the garrison city sent alarm bells ringing, as the health department teams on Thursday found larva of Aedes aegypti (dengue mosquitoes) in different parts of the city.
During a visit to different areas, District Health Officer Dr Ansar Ishaq checked tyre shops, graveyard and junkyards because these areas are a breeding place for mosquitoes.
The health department found larva at Dhoke Ratta (Union Council No 2), Pirwadhai (Union Council No 9), Glass Factory Mohallah (Union Council No 31), Dhoke Dalal and Istabal Road near Novelty Cinema (Union Council No 38), Mohanpura (Union Council No 36) and Raja Zafarul Haq Road (Union Council No 42).
Soon after the larva was found, the District Health Officer immediately called Entomologist Mahwish Raja and both re-checked the area and destroyed the larva, while spraying anti-dengue medicines.
While talking to Dawn, District Health Officer Dr Ansar Ishaq said that it was the duty of the town municipal administration to remove the tyres, which are lying abandoned on roadsides. During the rain, the water accumulated in these tyres becomes a breeding ground for dengue mosquitoes.
“The sanitary situation is going from bad to worst in these union councils as the piles of garbage were seen on roadsides. There is dire need to pay attention on sanitation and keep the city areas neat and clean after the rains,” he said.
He said that he brought the situation in the notice of Executive District Officer and District Coordination Officer and urged them to direct municipal services department to improve sanitation condition and TMAs to launch aggressive campaigns against abandoned tyres.
Meanwhile, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Saqib Zafar called a meeting of the health department, TMAs and civil defence officials to chalk out a future plan to avoid spread of dengue virus in the district.
The DCO directed the Potohar and Rawal Town Municipal administration to launch an aggressive campaign against the tyre shops and other departments to drain out water accumulated in vacant plots and parks in the city.
He asked Parks and Horticulture Agency (PHA) to start cleanliness drive in the 42 parks of the city and spray anti-dengue medicines to prevent these parks from dengue virus.
He said that the green belts along the roads would also be made safe for the general public.
While giving a briefing, EDO Health Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal said that the health department had recruited five entomologists and deployed them at Rawal and Potohar towns, Taxila, Kahuta and Murree.
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It would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday on Monday.
Many communities are holding events this holiday weekend to honor the slain civil rights leader who, among other things, organized boycotts against racially segregated bus systems in the South and led the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
From 1957 until his death in 1968, King traveled 6 million miles and delivered more than 2,500 speeches.
Here are some of the events being held in the East Bay on Monday in honor of Dr. King.
10 a.m. to Noon. Participants will walk from Jefferson Elementary School, 1400 Ada St., to King Middle School, 1781 Rose St. A celebration of King's life will be held inside the auditorium there.
9:30 a.m. A Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Department of Motor Vehicles, 6400 Manila Ave., and ends at El Cerrito High School, 540 Ashbury Avenue. A rally at the High School Performing Arts Center starts at 10:30 a.m. and includes singing, speeches, music and entertainment.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A celebration will be held at Anna Yates Elementary School, 1070 41st St. Arts, activities, dancing, music, student performances and a barbeque lunch will be part of the event.
9 a.m. to Noon: A rally will be held at Hercules Middle High School Auditorium, 1900 Refugio Valley Rd. Keynote speakers include journalist Belva Davis. and Dr. Denise Noldon, president of Contra Costa College. There will also be a free breakfast and youth performances.
8:30 a.m. to Noon. The East Bay Regional Park District will host a day of service in honor of Dr. King. Volunteers should meet at the Oak Port Athletic Field, 5734 Oakport St. Volunteers will help park district employees with invasive plant removal.
9 a.m. A volunteer event will feature a bird walks led by Golden Gate Audubon docents. It'll be held at Martin Luther King Regional Shoreline Park.
9 a.m. to Noon: A food drive is being held in honor of Dr. King's efforts to end poverty. Canned goods can be donated at the Alameda County Food Bank, 7900 Edgewater Drive.
10 a.m. to Noon. A multicultural peace celebration will be held ILWU Warehouse Hall #6, 99 Hegenberger Road. Speakers, including Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson and the Rev. Byron Williams, will highlight the event.
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: A shoreline cleanup will be held in honor of Dr. King. Participants should meet at Garretson Point parking lot at the end of Edgewater Drive. Volunteers will clean up and help restore Damon Marsh, Damon Slough, Arrowhead Marsh and Martin Luther King Jr. Grove.
10 a.m. to Noon. A "Make The Dream Real" celebration will be held at Taylor Memorial Church, 1188 12th St. Sacred drumming will be performed along with performances from young artists.
Noon to 3 p.m. A "Green the Block" service day will be held at the Crossroads Collective Cafe, 942 Stanford Ave. Treats from the cafe will be provided for volunteers who install planter boxes and benches in the neighborhood.
Noon to 5 p.m. A birthday celebration and economic, health and peace fair will be held at Star Bethel Church, 5800 San Pablo Ave. The focus is living a healthy, peaceful life.
12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. A theater matinee will be held at the African American Museum and Library, 659 14th St. A collection of films will be shown commemorating the life of Dr. King.
7:30 p.m.: A preinaugural gospel concert will be held at Star Bethel Church, 5800 San Pablo Ave. It will feature gospel artist Jonathan Nelson and local artists.
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A service day will be held. Volunteers should meet in the parking lot of Point Pinole Regional Park. Shoreline clean-up will include free refreshments. Supplies provided.
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. A festival and service day will be held from 6th Street to 16th Street, between Ohio and Chanslor Avenue. Planting, pruning, urban farming, live music, entertainment, food, art projects and a petting zoo are part of the event.
2 p.m. The city's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration will be held at the Marina Community Center, 15301 Wicks Blvd.
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Penn Yan is a village in Yates County, New York, USA. The population was 5,219 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Yates County. The name is an invention of the early settlers for their community. It is derived from the shortening of "Pennsylvania Yankee". It houses the Penn Yan Central School District. The Village of Penn Yan is primarily in the Town of Milo, but a small section is in the Town of Benton. A smaller section is in the Town of Jerusalem. Penn Yan Airport is south of the village. WYLF-AM 850 broadcasts from Penn Yan and provides local news and weathers, as well as "Timeless Favorites". | <urn:uuid:d4466247-0901-4adb-9091-4ce2fc6b592a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://openjurist.org/law/contingency-fee-representation/new-york/penn-yan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96416 | 140 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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The major thrust of the Education Committee results from the rather urgent need to implement interesting programs in which supervisors may train for examination and certification under the qualifications of the pesticide act. While it is not easy at this time to determine what certification is going to be, what supervisors are going to be involved, what kind of examination they are going to have to take, and how the state is going to interpret all of this, we therefore cannot be specific. The wheels are grinding away, and as you know, the timetable is winding down; and we may be faced with a rather short period of time to get these people qualified. Our industry hopes that we will have the training to offer and that all supervisors from around the country have the opportunity to prepare, take the examination, and be certified. | <urn:uuid:1aa4f21d-8b2e-4b2b-8907-82b0be937bb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdmbirdcontrol/107/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968156 | 162 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Ethics group urges Congress to examine Google's copyright controls
An ethics group is urging Congress to scrutinize Google Inc.'s copyright controls after finding hundreds of apparently pirated movies available on the Internet search leader's website.
In letters sent to several lawmakers Wednesday, the National Legal and Policy centre excoriated Google for allowing its video-hosting service to become an online theatre for showing and promoting illegally copied movies.
The nonprofit group, which says it has no financial ties to the movie industry, is best known for helping to expose a 2003 corruption scandal involving the Air Force and Boeing Co. that landed two executives in jail.
The grievances made to Congress focused exclusively on content found on Google's website rather than the company's more popular YouTube subsidiary that is being sued by Viacom Inc. for alleged copyright infringement.
The harsh critique echoes similar complaints that have asserted Google is more interested in boosting its audience _ and potential profit _ than protecting the intellectual property of Hollywood studios, record labels, authors and publishers.
Google says it adheres to federal law by removing unauthorized content whenever asked by copyright owners.
But that method has proven to be woefully inadequate, said Ken Boehm, chairman of the nonprofit National Legal and Policy centre.
"They clearly have the technological and economic wherewithal to do something more about it," Boehm said. "Instead, they are making money off other people's intellectual property. That's wrong."
Google probably remains on solid legal ground, said Bruce Sunstein, a Boston lawyer specializing in intellectual property rights. "The law will favour Google as long as they are diligent in taking down videos, but they could be in trouble if they have a cavalier attitude."
In a statement, Google said it is working on new technology that will be introduced in the "not-too-distant" future to help copyright owners block unauthorized material from being posted on the site. Earlier in the year, the Mountain View-based company indicated the filtering tools would be introduced as early as September.
Other sites, including News Corp.'s MySpace.com and Microsoft's MSN.com, already have copyright filters set up.
"As a company that respects the rights of copyright holders, we work every day to help them manage their content, and we are developing state-of-the-art tools to let them do that even better," Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said.
The National Legal and Policy Group found plenty of room for improvement after poring through Google's video site from Sept. 10 through Sept. 18.
That review uncovered 300 apparently pirated movies that that had been viewed a combined 22 million times. About 60 of the movies were recent theatrical releases, including popular films like "Shrek The Third," "Oceans Thirteen" and "The Bourne Ultimatum" that aren't even available on DVD yet.
In some instances, the movie titles were misspelled in apparent attempt to skirt detection. Some of the copyright violations were egregious, Boehm said, because it was obvious the movies had been taped in a theatre with a video camera. Some of the movies also included Web links to sites specializing in pirated video, Boehm said.
To help hunt for apparent copyright violations, Boehm said he hired his 18-year-old nephew for $10 (euro7.08) per hour. He suggested Google might be able to afford to hire more copyright cops, given the company earned nearly $2 billion (euro1.42 billion) on $7.5 billion (euro5.31 billion) in revenue during the first half of the year.
Boehm thinks Google's ineffectual policing efforts raise serious questions about the company's motto, "Don't Be Evil."
"We are hoping to shame Google into doing something," Boehm said. "What they are doing is inexcusable corporate behaviour. When big companies do something unethical, it sends a message to everyone else that it's OK."
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Boy's Life . . .
Bill Breen reminisces about
Bill Breen remembers . . .
Seminary apartment complex between Kirk and Inman was instead the site of woods
and "the most beautiful little lake." . . . When
was unpaved and was a favorite spot of exploration for young boys with its
"caves" and the "best blackberry picking places." . . . When
a young Scotty Candler kept a horse in the backyard of his
South Candler Street
home (on S. Candler, presently the home of a City Commissioner). . . . When the
playground was all dust ≠(or mud if it rained) and had no grass.
Bill Breen, who was born in
1926 in one of the county's oldest houses, has lived most of the last
three-quarters of a century in
. He was the guest speaker at the May 2006
meeting of the Winnona Park Neighborhood Association. Breen was born and lived
his earliest years in his grandparents' home, the Fulton-Avary House on
. The house was built in 1868 by the James Avary family and purchased by the
family in 1888. It is now the home of Breen's uncle, Tom Fulton Jr.
At one time, there was a
small lake on the property, said Breen, but it was drained by Avary after his
first wife died of malaria that he believed was contracted from the pond.
At age six, young Billy's
family moved to a house on the southeast corner of Winnona and Avery, near his
present home on
. Then, in 1936, the family moved to
, where his mother, Henrietta Fulton Breen, operated a small nursery school for
more than 20 years, until about 1972, on the bottom floor. As an adult, Breen,
who grew up to be an architect and still has offices in
, designed an addition to the
He remembers his years at
Winnona Elementary as a combination of work and play, strict teachers and
"sweet, pretty" ones. The YMCA operated recreational programs at the
playground, which had no grass in those days; "it was all dust or mud,
depending on the weather." In eighth grade, he went to the high school
"which proved to be a good training ground for me... About 95 percent of
the students went on to college." When he wasn't attending school, Breen
and his friends were likely to be exploring the woods and "caves" and
creeks in the neighborhood. Avery, or Avary as it was originally known, was
paved with sidewalks, and it was quite a venture for young Billy to walk through
the woods (lots of mimosa trees) and across the creek from the Fulton-Avary
Shadowmoor Drive, which Breen
recalls as having no houses at the time, was "paved" with crushed
stones and oiled to keep the dust down between Columbia and Hilldale but
impassable to Inman. "On the far side of Shadowmoor were steep banks with
what we boys called caves that we played in and dug for miniť balls."
Summertime meant good blackberry picking in the bushes along Shadowmoor.
When young Bill and his
friends wanted to go camping, they didn't have to look beyond their
neighborhood. A favorite spot was the woods and lake where the Columbia Seminary
apartments now stand. The catch, Breens says, was that his mother made him call
up the president of the Columbia Seminary, a Dr. Richardson, and ask permission
to camp on the property.
A community club with pool
was located behind Avery and Winnona "next door to my current house,"
says Breen. "I would crawl out the window at the break of day and go
swimming... all the kids had chronic earaches all summer." The brick pool,
opened as the Decatur Athletic Club in 1913, was deteriorating even during his
childhood, says Breen, and was later demolished, though the remains of the old
tennis courts are now in his current backyard.
"Pinky" English, lived with his aunt and uncle in the Milledge house,
a large house off Kirk near Mimosa that was demolished later to make way for the
Candler Oaks development. Another classmate was Martha Feemster of Avery, whose
father owned a grocery and butcher shop on
where the Georgia Power substation is now. Martha later married Henry Hagee,
who owned the Decatur Floral Company greenhouses that stood where the Kirk
Crossing development is now.
was built from South Candler through to Avery, but the area further east was
woods on the south side and the greenhouse business on the north.
Scott Candler, former Decatur
City Commissioner and mayor, was also a classmate of Breen's. His yard at South
Candler ran all the way back to Avery and included a formal garden, servants'
quarters and a stable that housed young Scotty's pony. Breen remembers riding
the pony and falling off: "I've never liked horses since then."
Breen and his friends often
walked, as Winnona residents do today, to the businesses at
and South Candler. Back then, he said, there was a pharmacy, a garage, a hot
dog stand, a barber, plus a service station. Neighbors shopped for food at a
grocery store where Smith Hardware is now.
By the 1960s, when Bill and
Betty Breen were raising their own family of four children in the house on
, the South Candler/East College business area had two drugstores and the garage
As an adult, Bill Breen has
always been an active part of the
community. He was active in the Boy Scouts and served on the Decatur City
Commission. It was while serving as mayor of
during the era of racial desegregation that Breen fought and won a battle to
keep the city schools from being turned over to
Editor's note: Special thanks
to Randy Tyndall, Avery Street resident and Columbia Seminary staffer, for
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North Dakota anglers are reminded they can fish for free June 2-3.
That is the weekend North Dakota residents may fish without a license. All other fishing regulations apply.
Refer to the 2012-14 North Dakota Fishing Guide for season information.
Biologists Hope Shad Boost Oahe Forage Base
Game and Fish Department biologists stocked roughly 225 adult gizzard shad in Lake Oahe’s Beaver Bay in May to help jumpstart a limited forage base.
A good share of Oahe’s young-of-the-year rainbow smelt were flushed through the dam during flooding in 2011, drastically thinning what game fish have to eat. In addition, high flows and sediment-laden water reduced production of other forage fish.
Even though the number of strutting males observed during the spring sage grouse survey was up 15 percent from last year, the population remains well below management objectives. Therefore, the sage grouse hunting season will remain closed in 2012.
Aaron Robinson, North Dakota Game and Fish Department upland game bird biologist, said biologists counted 72 males on 12 active strutting grounds. Last year, 63 males were counted on 12 active leks in the southwest.
“This is great news,” Robinson said. “The population has shown it can possibly come back given the right conditions.”
Tomorrow, Wednesday May 16, is the Park and Rec board meeting to make a decision as to the fate/future of the City Park Band Shell. Erected in 1931 by the Citizens of Valley City dedicated to early resident D.W. Clark, the founder of the first city band, the floods of 09,10 and 11 did a number on the foundation beneath it where the walls of the basement are collapsing in and taking the structure with it.
Paddlefish Snagging Season to Close to Additional Harvest Friday Afternoon
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department announced today that the state's 2012 paddlefish snagging season will close to any additional harvest at 1 p.m. Central Daylight Time, Friday, May 11, to protect the population level of the fish. The additional seven-day snag-and-release season will begin Saturday, May 12 and run through Friday, May 18.
Deer Season Set, Online Apps Available May 9
North Dakota’s 2012 deer season is set, with 65,300 licenses available to hunters this fall, 44,650 fewer than last year and the lowest since 1988.
Randy Kreil, wildlife chief for the State Game and Fish Department, said the decline in the deer population is a result of increased adult mortality and reduced fawn production following the severe winters of 2008-10. In addition, the extreme winter conditions followed nearly a decade of aggressive deer management featuring large numbers of antlerless licenses in many units.
On Wednesday, April 25th, twelve Maple Valley @ Oriska elementary school students participated in the annual Regional Science Olympiad competition at the Valley City Eagles Club. The team, which consisted of 5 sixth graders and 7 fifth graders, captured third place following an afternoon of competition. First place was awarded to Griggs County and second place went to Barnes County North.
Game Warden Exam is May 18
Individuals interested in taking the game warden exam scheduled for May 18 are reminded to submit a letter of intent to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department before 5 p.m., May 17.
Letters of intent should be addressed to chief game warden Robert Timian, North Dakota Game and Fish Department, 100 N. Bismarck Expressway, Bismarck, ND 58501‑5095. The test will be given at 10 a.m., May 18 at the department's main office in Bismarck.
Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and have a bachelor’s degree. Other requirements are a current North Dakota peace officer license, or eligibility for a license, and a valid driver’s license. Candidates must have excellent interpersonal skills in communications and writing, and must not have a record of any felony convictions.
Game wardens enforce game and fish laws and related regulations in an assigned district and other locations as determined by the department. Wardens normally work alone under varied conditions, at all hours of the day, night and weekends. In addition to law enforcement duties, wardens assist in the areas of public relations, education programs, and hunter and boat safety education.
Game warden duties also require the ability to perform physically demanding tasks involving lifting and carrying large, heavy objects, walking and running over uneven terrain and tolerating adverse weather and other environmental conditions.
Selection procedures following the test may include an evaluation of the application, a structured oral interview, background and reference checks, and psychological and medical examinations.
The salary for beginning game wardens through training is $3,000 per month. Upon successful completion of training, the salary is $3,550 per month. Wardens also receive the state benefits package, including travel allowance. Uniforms and other equipment are provided.
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Justler 1961
A Colorful Symphony
Alec Bings: “Many years ago, on this very spot, there was a beautiful city of fine houses and inviting spaces, and no one who lived here was ever in a hurry. The streets were full of wonderful things to see and the people would often stop to look at them.”
“Didn’t they have any place to go?” asked Milo?
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An amateur gardener looks at the humorous side of growing vegetables.
Jerry, Jerry, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Not too bad, considering I am more of a vegetable than anything I've planted this year. Actually, the little patch of earth on the side of the house is the first garden I have ever had. My wife, Sue, who has a green thumb (she really ought to see a doctor), could grow tomatoes in Death Valley. I, on the other hand, who have a dirty thumb, am responsible for making parts of our property look like that famous desert.
So when the only plant I could not kill, a gigantic butterfly bush, was removed earlier this year, I decided to put in herbs (nobody named Herb was harmed during planting) and various veggies (not including broccoli and zucchini, which I will consume only at the point of a gun) and turn the place into a Garden of Eatin'.
I was inspired to get into agriculture, which is the only culture I have, by President Barack Obama and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, who recently planted a White House garden that is approximately the size of Rhode Island.
Mine is somewhat smaller (83 inches by 64 inches, to be exact), but you have to start somewhere, and I didn't think the Secret Service would let me do so outside the Oval Office.
I went with Sue to one of those home-improvement warehouses to pick out what I wanted to plant.
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Published on Sunday, 30 December 2012 12:42
The Shwe Gas project and pipeline construction in western Myanmar will continue, the government said, although many people are demanding its temporary suspension for not having properly assessed the environmental and social impacts of the project.
Project manager Cheng Huan Lai said that it may be able to start the export of natural gas from the project in Rakhine state to China latest by May 30, 2013, and oil by September 30, through two Myanmar-China pipelines of about 800km length. Pipeline constructions will be complete before the May 2013 deadline.
The joint venture project between China National Petroleum Corporation and the Myanmar Ministry of Oil and Gas Enterprise has allegedly damaged the environmental and social lives of indigenous people, as well as the ecology of the area.
Win Aung of Shwe Gas Movement, which is demanding suspension of the project, said that it had caused mass forcible relocation of the locals, and some of those whose farms and lands had been confiscated had not received compensations. He also pointed out that not implementing the environmental and social impact assessments (EIA/SIA) have caused losses to the country.
Earlier, locals and activist civil organisations called on the Ministry of Energy to ensure transparency over the project’s financial figures, and urged reconsideration of the compensation amount for land confiscated (0.0128 per cent of total cost has been reportedly budgeted for it), according to activist Tun Tun Naing of Kyaunkpyu Network, Myanmar-China Pipelines Watch Committee.
He said that they had also demanded disclosure of the name of the Thailand company which is reportedly undertaking EIA/SIA of the project, to publicise the reports, and inform the people of possible hazards they may experience.
The authorities, on the other side, highlighted the positives of the project.
Than Htay, Minister for Energy, said the project would daily yield 100 million cubic feet of natural gas and 2 million tonnes of crude oil for local consumption.
He added that the country will also gain the pipeline transit fee US$13.81 million per year for 30 years and oil transit fee of US$1 per tonne of export crude oil for 22 million tonnes a year.
Shwe Gas Project was started in August 2007, and Myanmar signed a memorandum of understanding for sale of gas to China in June 2008.
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- China's Huawei to work with Myanmar state-owned telecom
- KIA Motors to open new showrooms in Myanmar
- UK Trade Minister stresses 4 hindrances for investments in Myanmar
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The biggest city in Scotland is a combination of ancient structures, modern architecture and some of the best festivities that you’ll find in the UK. There are lots of modern structures that you’ll find in Glasgow and among them is the Clyde Arc which covers and supports the bridge under it. There are also lots of centuries-old structures that can fill your itinerary for the weekend. Glasgow has the St. Mungo's Cathedral which boasts a 13th century tower and magnificent Gothic architecture. It was believed that the revered saints founded the city in one of their visits here. There’s also the People's Palace from 1898 with a glasshouse at the front. It is still a place for people to hang out but it’s more for cultural presentation. For arts, the Burrell Collection is just 20 kilometers from the center of the town. Though a private collection, it’s now accessible to the public. There, you’ll find extensive medieval art paintings. Lastly, you can also visit the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum which is housed in a century-old structure.
The hotels in Glasgow are scattered around the area so that each visitor can select a hotel based on his or her preference. Some of the most expensive Glasgow hotels are located in the city center. There are also Glasgow cheap hotels for budget hunters. With discount hotels, Glasgow offers great savings for your trip. Visit EasyToBook.com for the latest tips on travel and hotels in Glasgow. | <urn:uuid:55827075-3745-4d39-a6f6-d3d33b5a93fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.easytobook.com/en/united-kingdom/glasgow/glasgow-hotels/?amu=280823224¤cy=RUB | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961913 | 305 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Looking for Herb
Every Christmas Eve, my family gets together at my mother’s house in a Tijuana middle-class suburb near the old Caliente Racetrack to have tamales, turkey, and liters of calientitos (Mexican Christmas punch). We wait for the midnight hour to open presents. This traditional ceremony has a soundtrack, and in Tijuana it is not the sound of Villancicos Navideños, but more in tune with the sounds of Christmas with the Rat Pack, Nat King Cole’s “Christmas Song,” and Elvis’s It’s Christmas Time. It is not Navidad until we play Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass’s Christmas Album.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (TJB) released Christmas Album in 1968, around the same time my mother’s home and the community of Las Palmas were built by Don Raymundo Muzquiz, a developer who practically owned most of Tijuana. To this day, we still carry the TJB Christmas Album on our iPods and play it during the posada season at our house (a nine-day celebration from December 16 through 24).
The TJB was not only a band that borrowed the city’s name: their sound became synonymous with a desire for a metropolitan Tijuana, a city that might be similar to San Diego, yet one that maintained its Latin roots with south-of-the-border charm. During the ’70s, the band’s music became the soundtrack for a couple of local TV shows, including Tijuana Window to the South.
During this time, Tijuana was growing at an accelerated rate due to the maquiladora program that began in 1965 and lured migrants from the southern states of Mexico and Central and South America. Tijuana grew from 165,690 in 1960 to 340,383 in 1970. The image and collective urban memory of the city morphed from utopia to dystopia…or from modern metropolis to the poster child of informal development.
The Tijuana sound climaxed with the TJB and gave way to other musical manifestations such as norteño, influenced by the musical tastes of migrants from southern Mexico who were more in tune with the realities of low-wage labor, haphazard planning, and squatter communities. A prominent local rock-and-roll scene was in the making and gave way to Tijuana groups such as the Tijuana Five, Dugs Dugs, and Javier Bátiz, longtime friend of Carlos Santana. Later came the narco corridos, musical tales that depicted the lives and misdeeds of drug cartels that began to set up shop in the ’80s.
The TJ Sound
The Tijuana sound had been in the making way before Herb Alpert set foot in Tijuana for the first time in 1962 to experience the sound and atmosphere of la fiesta brava (bullfights) in the bullring known as El Toreo de Tijuana. During the 1920s, many bars and cabarets that catered to visitors from California during Prohibition had musical acts. Musicians came to the city from the north and south, looking for work in American-owned establishments.
Jelly Roll Morton wrote his famous “Kansas City Stomp” while working at the Kansas City bar in Tijuana and was probably lured by TJ not only by the work but also because of gambling, horse racing, boxing matches, cockfighting, and bullfighting, the same blood-fest attraction that caught the attention of Herb Alpert 40 years later.
As the temptation of vice and inebriated recreation became part of the image of Tijuana, many musicians came down to work in the casinos and bars along Avenida Revolución. By the 1960s, Tijuana’s musical bandwagon was full force, and other famous jazz musicians began to show up and create their version of the Tijuana sound.
In 1962, Charles Mingus recorded Tijuana Moods, an album that he described as his best work. He was followed by Clark Terry and Gary McFarland with their Tijuana Jazz album, recorded in 1965, the same year Alpert released Whipped Cream and Other Delights (with model Dolores Erickson wearing nothing but whipped cream on the cover).
Alpert continued to write hit after hit; he won seven Grammys and sold more than 72 million records worldwide with Tijuana Brass, a band that did not include Mexicans or musicians from Tijuana. The band’s inspiration from Tijuana was more atmospheric than physical. Alpert remembered in a 1979 interview that one day in 1962 he came down to Tijuana from Los Angeles to watch the Mexican bullfighter Carlos Arruza and was inspired by the sounds of Mexico and not so much by the music. The bullring band of the time was led by Miguel Bravo, a well-known local musician who was good friends with Rafael Mendez, one of Mexico’s most famous trumpet players and an inspiration to Alpert. Mendez would show up for the bullfights and sometimes play with the band. Mendez’s virtuoso sound might have been in the air when Alpert made that trip to see the great Arruza swing his cape.
The TJB broke up in 1969; their last record together was The Brass Are Coming. But the Brass never came back to Tijuana. So began the legend of Alpert and his muchachos that circulates to this day. Some of the stories relate that Alpert was Brazilian or that the Tijuana Brass was all mariachi players from Plaza Santa Celia, where — on the corner of Revolution Avenue and First Street — mariachi bands eagerly await to be hired for a gig. One still-prominent rumor is that Herb Alpert is a tijuanense.
The Brass reunited in 1974 with new musicians, but the band played only for a year and a half before calling it quits. The traces that we have of the TJB in Tijuana are their promotional images, album covers, and music videos shot among the city’s most emblematic architecture. The music video for Alpert’s first hit (“The Lonely Bull”) was shot in 1962 with an empty Toreo de Tijuana as stage and ghostly recordings of large crowds. He returned to shoot a few more videos for the songs “Spanish Flea” and “Mexican Shuffle,” with large Tijuana crowds and bullfights and great shots of the city, which in those days was expanding toward the east. | <urn:uuid:4a1a55f1-df7d-4cdd-b8da-0000c5f5e8e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/mar/17/yonder-lies-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967975 | 1,368 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Campaign Work, Tuesday, 09 October 2012 11:10AM
The Pocket Art Gallery app was commissioned by the Great British Art Debate, a partnership between Tate Britain, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and Museums Sheffield.
Users can curate their own virtual art using an augmented-reality function by looking through their iPhone camera, taking a photo of a work of art and sending it to a map – for example, a shot of Sir John Everett Millais’ Ophelia placed by the Thames.
The app also provides information about the artist, the history of the piece and the subject depicted.
This article was first published on Campaign Work
It’s said that the average person is exposed to 30,000 marketing messages a day. To me that’s worrying news for us marketers – especially if it’s your job is to build marketing relationships with consumers. | <urn:uuid:3308763d-ba78-4fcb-b93b-5f1d6d66d642> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://campaignlive.co.uk/news/1153918/gallery/12509/page/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937361 | 191 | 1.726563 | 2 |
U2’s gross earnings for the past 11 years could soon pass $1 billion.
A list of top touring artists of the decade showed that U2 earned $844,157,925. Almost 10 million fans (9,869,953) attended their shows, and they’ve played 288 concerts, all of which sold out.
Their setlist essential is "Where the Streets Have No Name," according to Billboard.com.
The figures prompted Rolling Stone magazine to observe that within a period of 10 years the band “grossed more than most countries’ yearly gross national product.”
U2’s wealth looks set to climb even further into the stratosphere in the near future. The band have announced their 360 tour will continue in 2010, and they will make stops all over Europe and the U.S.
In February 2009 protestors gathered outside Ireland’s Department of Finance to complain about U2’s transfer of their tax affairs from Ireland to the Netherlands, the Irish Times reported. The band made this decision in 2006 after the Irish government altered a historic law exempting artists from paying tax.
Since 2006, artists living in Ireland have had to pay tax on any earnings above above $358,500 (250,000 euros). | <urn:uuid:cc29e00a-6395-449f-8f01-90104c2e09ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/U2-grossed-almost-as-much-money-as-a-small-country-in-past-decade.html?mob-ua=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959712 | 264 | 1.742188 | 2 |
How to avoid ‘voice phishing’
I experienced an attempted phone scam recently in Seoul, and I feel obliged to share my experience with the readers. It all began when I picked up the telephone on my desk that morning.
It was an automated message, saying, “This is an urgent notice from KT (Korea Telecom). Your phone service will be cut off this afternoon. If you want to know the details, press zero now.”
I pressed zero, and a woman said, “This is the KT accounting office. Our record shows that you have an accrued balance due of over 486,000 won. KT will have to suspend your telephone service, if you don’t pay it now.”
I protested, “This is preposterous. I have paid all the bills.”
``You opened another telephone account at Yeouido three months ago, and you have not paid the phone bills for that account,” she sounded confidently. I could hear background noise as if it was coming from a customer service center.
``Wait a minute, I don’t live in Yeouido or have an office there,” I said in shock.
She then said, “It looks like somebody stole your identity to open that account. We have received reports of similar cases. We will report your case to the police. You don’t have to do anything. We will take care of it.”
Then she asked what my name and my cell phone number were. She was speaking fast in Korean in a funny intonation, sounding like she was reading a script. I said, “Why do you talk like a machine?” She did not answer. Yet, after asking what her name was, I gave the information she wanted. She added, “You will be contacted by the police in about five minutes.”
I wanted to prepare myself before the police would contact me. I called the KT information center and confirmed that I did not have another telephone account or have unpaid bills. They informed me that it was a vishing scam, which refers to “voice phishing.”
Shortly afterwards, the phone rang again, and a man claimed in an authoritative voice, “I am a special agent with the Office of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Headquarters.”
I shot back at him loudly, “You are a crook!” Apparently, this guy was taken aback, “What, what … how dare you ...” I hung up while he was struggling to say something. Although I was not positive that the caller was impersonating a police officer, I wanted to report it to the police authority. So I called 112.
When I called 112, I was referred to the special investigation team on “social engineering,” a term that refers to “the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.” From a real police officer, I learned:
These vishing scams are generated from China by way of the Internet phone system. The criminals are not traceable. They sometimes impersonate a prosecutor or a representative of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), and they ask the victims to provide bank account numbers and pin numbers to steal money from them. Some schemers also send e-mails to the target victim with instructions to open the link to the police website ― a fake website which looks identical to the official website with the official logos.
They often ask the victim to update their personal confidential information such as bank account and credit card numbers and pin numbers. The crooks would say they need the input to protect the victim’s interest. Some scammers use such information to take cash or credit cash advances from ATMs.
According to the police and the FSS, there were 8,244 victims of vishing, from whom a total of 101.9 billion won ($90 million) was stolen in 2011 alone.
Belatedly, the financial regulator announced that a 10-minute waiting requirement shall soon be applied to withdrawal of funds from an ATM. In 10 minutes, the banking system will be able to determine a suspicious transaction and stop it, while the culprit is waiting in front of the ATM machine to take money, using a victim’s information.
The authorities will also employ a stricter procedure for taking cash advances of more than 3 million won using credit cards: The credit card banks shall be required to send a message to the applicant cell phone to confirm the veracity of the application and pay the advance two hours after the application is returned.
Some advice against vishing includes:
■ Be suspicious of unsolicited calls even if the caller claims to represent a law enforcement agency or a respected company.
■ Never provide bank account numbers, any other banking information, or resident registration number (Social Security Number) over the phone or through e-mail to an unsolicited person.
■ Do not open a website at the direction of an unknown caller or an unsolicited e-mail, and never provide any personal information on such a website.
■ Report the suspicious event to the authorities.
The writer is a visiting research professor at Korea University and a visiting professor at the University of North Korean Studies. He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His email address is [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:b9515526-7164-4cdc-a7b7-7af3aeab7ee6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2012/05/167_104914.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962572 | 1,115 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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From BR Bullpen
Alexander Schacht (The Clown Prince of Baseball)
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 11", Weight 142 lb.
- High School The High School of Commerce
- Debut September 18, 1919
- Final Game September 6, 1921
- Born November 11, 1892 in New York, NY USA
- Died July 14, 1984 in Waterbury, CT USA
Biographical Information
Al Schacht, although he had a three year career in the major leagues, became much better known after his playing days as the "Clown Prince of Baseball". He became a baseball clown (there were a number of baseball clowns in the first part of the 20th century), and performed mostly at minor league parks as well as at all the major league parks.
Amateur career
The coach at his high school thought Al was too small to pitch, so he went to play in the sandlots instead. He later returned to the school baseball team but was banned by the Board of Education for his appearance on semipro teams. This led him to drop out of school.
1910-1912: Semipro ball, weight concerns
Signing with a semipro team in Walton, NY, Schacht was with the club from 1910-11. After one fine outing against the Cuban Stars and Jose Mendez witnessed by scout Mike Kahoe, Al got a wire from Clark Griffith requesting his presence. Griffith was unimpressed by Schacht's size (Al had worn extra clothing during the Mendez game to make himself appear larger) and offered to send him to the Fort Wayne, IN club in the Central League but Schacht turned it down and returned to the semipro game.
Erie Sailors manager Billy Gilbert signed him in 1912 but again let him go due to concerns about his weight and he moved to the Cleveland, OH team in the United States League (the forerunner of the Federal League) and Al went 5-0 before the league folded. He then returned to semipro baseball once more. That year, Schacht faced Cy Young and beat the Hall-of-Famer in one outing.
1913-1916: Newark
Schacht began working as a boxing trainer that year and lost his father to illness. He got an offer from the 1913 Newark Indians and joined them, going 4-6 as the low man on a staff that was 91-51 when other pitchers got the decision. Al was offered a contract by the St. Louis Terriers to go to the Federal League but turned it down when Newark's Ed Barrow convinced him that he would get a job in the majors for Schacht. Al spent all of 1914 in Newark, though, posting a 12-10 record that was second on the team behind Cliff Curtis. In 1915, Newark moved to Harrisburg, PA and became the Harrisburg Senators during the season. For Newark-Harrisburg, Al was 13-13, again second on the team (this time behind Johnny Enzmann. Schacht slipped to 2-6, 4.45 with Newark in 1916 and had a 1.64 WHIP. He was plagued by a sore arm and was let go by the Indians. John McGraw signed him for New York but he never pitched for the Giants.
1917: IL loss leader
In 1917, Schacht went 12-21 with a 4.00 ERA for the Rochester Hustlers and allowed 296 hits in 268 innings. He led the International League in losses; when other pitchers got the decision, Rochester was 60-61 that year.
1918-1919: Military service
Al spent the early part of 1918 working for Bethlehem Steel Company, then was drafted into the US Army despite a hearing deficiency which he thought would exclude him from service. He spent the next year stateside and played baseball throughout the time.
1919: IL shutout leader
Returning to the International League for a 6th year there, Al went 19-17 for a horrible Jersey City team that otherwsie was 37-76. He led the IL with nine shutouts and his 1.95 ERA was 4th-best. He threw 318 innings and walked only 59 batters that year. Al kept anonymously sending Clark Griffith news clippings of his successes to try to get a chance at the major leagues. Griffith scouted Schacht and liked what he saw, signing him up.
1919-21: Major league pitching
Al went 2-0 with a 2.40 ERA in two late starts for the 1919 Senators. In 1920, Al was 6-4 with a save and a 4.44 ERA. When Walter Johnson was unable to make a scheduled start due to injury, Schacht took the turn when none of the other hurlers volunteered and got the win in front of a crowd that had been angry not to see The Big Train. Al broke his shoulder that year when Detroit SS Donie Bush crashed on him after leaping to make a play.
Al began working with Nick Altrock in a clowning act during his Washington days but the two did not get along in terms of personality. Al also took turns working the third base coaching box. Schacht went 6-6 with a save and 4.90 ERA for the 1921 Senators to conclude his big-league pitching career.
In his major league days, he had a record of 14-10 in 197 innings, with an ERA of 4.48. According to the similarity scores method, the most similar player to Schacht was his teammate Jose Acosta. Schacht liked to boast that Babe Ruth never homered against him.
1922-24: Last years as a player
At age 29 and with a history of injuries, Schacht got a job with the 1922 Reading Aces. He went 5-6 with a 3.20 ERA for Reading, second on the team behind only player-manager Chief Bender in ERA. Spencer Abbott replaced Bender as manager in '23 and did not like Al's antics, letting him go after two games. Schacht then moved to the Binghamton Triplets and went 9-4 in his last year as a regular pitcher, while also coaching. His clowning was very popular in Binghamton. He finished up his playing career with the 1924 New Haven Profs but was primarily a coach and clown there.
1925-36: Coaching
Schacht joined the 1925 Senators as a third base coach and remained there for a decade. He continued his act with Altrock during this time. A popular fellow, his Clown Prince act didn't prevent him from serving as interim manager for the Washington Senators in 1934. (Note: this service is not listed by Baseball-Reference.com as it may not have been official, but is described by the SABR Biography as occuring during a time when Joe Cronin had broken his wrist and went on honeymoon.) Cronin and Schacht were traded to the Boston Red Sox after that season for Lyn Lary and $225,000 and the Altrock/Schacht partnership ended. Al coached for Boston for two years.
The rest of his life
Schacht continued to perform after his coaching career ended. He entertained at 25 World Series from 1927-52, 18 All-Star Games, performed for the USO in World War II in Europe, Asia and Africa and in numerous other baseball games. He claimed that more people had seen him perform than any previous major league player. Among his acts were mock weddings at home plate, shadowing the third baseman, reading newspapers while sitting on the basepaths and imitations.
"There is talk that I am Jewish - just because my father was Jewish, my mother was Jewish, I speak Yiddish and once studied to be a rabbi and a cantor. Well, that's how rumors get started."
The Big Book of Jewish Baseball by Peter Horvitz and Joachim Horvitz, SABR Biography of Al Schacht, The International League: Year-by-Year Statistics by Marshall Wright, Pat Doyle's Professional Baseball Player Database | <urn:uuid:0a4388e0-eec3-422e-bac5-3e2e240f7d91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al%20Schacht | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985249 | 1,696 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Ever wondered what your mouse pointer actually does all day? Ever wanted to have a way of tracking where it goes while you work, and exporting that information as a map of your daily mousings?
If you have, you need IOGraph.
It’s simple, it’s free, it’s fun, and it’s brilliant: it watches your mouse movements for as long as you want it to, tracking the times when the pointer is moving rapidly and the times it spends standing still in one place.
It plots all this on a view of your computer’s desktop, showing the movements as fine lines and the stationary periods as enlarged blobs.
You can choose to have your map on a plain white background, or superimposed over a screenshot of your desktop. If you search Flickr for “iograph”, you’ll find a few people who’ve made some great images with it. Co-creator Anatoly Zenkov has some cool images made with IOGraph in his photostream. | <urn:uuid:2c3d31bb-e047-4da9-9868-d8a3d799107e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cultofmac.com/31663/track-your-mousing-make-your-own-artwork/31663/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944425 | 219 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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